collaborated with people who have an Erdős number of 2 (but not with Erdős or anyone with an Erdős number of 1) have an Erdős number of 3, and so forth. A person...
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the number, the closer a person is to Erdős and Bacon, which reflects a small world phenomenon in academia and entertainment. To have a defined Erdős–Bacon...
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Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál [ˈɛrdøːʃ ˈpaːl]; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians...
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mathematics: Does the Erdős–Moser equation have solutions other than 11+21=31? (more unsolved problems in mathematics) In number theory, the Erdős–Moser equation...
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Erdős number measures the "collaborative distance" between an author and Erdős. Thus, his direct co-authors have Erdős number one, theirs have number...
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In number theory, a positive integer k is said to be an Erdős–Woods number if it has the following property: there exists a positive integer a such that...
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Nicholas Metropolis (section Erdős number)
wonderful personality." Metropolis has an Erdős number of 2 and he enabled Richard Feynman to have an Erdős number of 3. Stochastics ENIAC Colossus computer...
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (redirect from Bacon number)
Bacon number of an actor is the number of degrees of separation they have from Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game. This is an application of the Erdős number...
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their use in ancient Egyptian mathematics. The Erdős–Straus conjecture is one of many conjectures by Erdős, and one of many unsolved problems in mathematics...
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mathematician Paul Erdős and his various collaborators made many famous mathematical conjectures, over a wide field of subjects, and in many cases Erdős offered...
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