Show us your articles! Or what's your Erdos number?

[TheWhiteDeath]

My number is arguably 4. I once got help on my chemistry lab report from my granddad, who was Erdos-3, so yeah. It wasn't published, but I still say it counts.

[AMathematician]

I'm going to be a 5! Although not according to the Collaboration Distance Calculator. That has me as a 6. But searching coauthors of my coauthor shows that I'm a 5. I'm being published in the European Physical Journal Plus. A (not quite publication) draft is here.

[timeodanaos]

And I thought is was common knowledge that sums can only be taken over a countable number of things, and Sigma notation implies that. Summing over an uncountably infinite number of things is impossible, unless you use infinitesimals and that just results in integration.

That statement is itself a contradiction. Because infinity itself is uncountable.

The integers are countably infinite, which is what I meant with countable in the above. The reals are uncountably infinite. The latter means roughly speaking that you cannot use an index number x_i to count off all the reals, even if you could count for an infinite amount of time.

Even if some time has passed I really need to say something: when you write in an environment that defines itself as mathematic, you have to be precise. "Infinitesimals" and "infinity itself" are, among others, NON precise mathematical concepts. Actually you can define sums of numbers, even infinite ones (cardinals or ordinals), over a set of indices of any nature, even uncountable (obviously it has to be a set, as defined for example with the Zermelo-Fraenkel-Choice axioms; you cannot define a sum over the paradoxical set of Russell, as far as I know). As a reference I suggest you read the first volume of N.Bourbaki work: "Set Theory", chapter III.

However, in order to be not so much off-topic, my Erdõs number is less or equal than 6.

[skullturf]

Mine is 3.

http://www.idmercer.com/

[QuigleyQ]

I'm too young (and also not Gauss) to have written any papers yet, but my girlfriend's grandfather has an Erdős number of 1. So I like to pretend I have a 3-point-something.

[skullturf]

I'm too young (and also not Gauss) to have written any papers yet, but my girlfriend's grandfather has an Erdős number of 1. So I like to pretend I have a 3-point-something.

Cool!

Out of curiosity, do you mind if I ask you who your girlfriend's grandfather is/was?

[QuigleyQ]

I'm too young (and also not Gauss) to have written any papers yet, but my girlfriend's grandfather has an Erdős number of 1. So I like to pretend I have a 3-point-something.

Cool!

Out of curiosity, do you mind if I ask you who your girlfriend's grandfather is/was?

Seymour Schuster. The papers were on graph theory, so I understood the first half-page. And that's it. :\ http://www.emis.de/classics/Erdos/cit/76705089.htm http://www.emis.de/classics/Erdos/cit/47905054.htm

[Proginoskes]

But there can be only one 0, also no more 1s are possible. If you hunt out the 1s you might get a 2.

The people with Erdos numbers 1 and 2 are listed online. No one bothers with the 3s, because there are so many of us. (Sniff!)

Yes, I'm a 3 ... Erdos -> Nesetril -> Robin Thomas -> me.

Interestingly enough ... I had a cold when Erdos was vising UNL, and Earl Kramer asked whether I wanted to be introduced. I declined, deciding that it would probably not look good if I ended up being the person who gave Erdos a cold which killed him. (I saw him at Georgia Tech a couple of times, including once about a month before he died.

Ine of these times was when I had been invited to GT for graduate school, and Dad and I were checking out the place. When we walked by an office, Craig Tovey was explaining something to Erdos, who looked almost asleep. In fact, Dad later said that he wanted to yell out, "He's not paying attention to you! He's asleep!" Of course, I later told him who the almost-asleep guest was ...)

[dan131m]

Finally wrote my first paper. Hopefully many, many more to follow.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3952

[delooper]

But there can be only one 0, also no more 1s are possible. If you hunt out the 1s you might get a 2.

The people with Erdos numbers 1 and 2 are listed online. No one bothers with the 3s, because there are so many of us. (Sniff!)

Yes, I'm a 3 ... Erdos -> Nesetril -> Robin Thomas -> me.

I'm a 3 as well. Erdos -> Selfridge -> Cohen -> me. I think half the people in my department are 3's.

[skullturf]

delooper -- we may or may not know each other. Of course, different people reveal different amounts of information about themselves on the internet, but I am a mathematician who's originally from British Columbia and did my BSc and PhD in that province.

(I'm also a 3 by the way.)

[delooper]

delooper -- we may or may not know each other. Of course, different people reveal different amounts of information about themselves on the internet, but I am a mathematician who's originally from British Columbia and did my BSc and PhD in that province.

(I'm also a 3 by the way.)

No, I'm pretty sure we don't know each other. I got my B.Sc at U.Alberta, Ph.D at Cornell, 4 postdocs (NY, Oregon, MPI Bonn, IHES France) later and I'm in BC.

[NathanielJ]

My most recent paper (well, preprint) is arXiv:1203.1633 [cs.CC], which is by far the most fun paper I've written. My Erdos number is 3, through this paper with Man-Duen Choi.

[Talith]

My most recent paper (well, preprint) is arXiv:1203.1633 [cs.CC], which is by far the most fun paper I've written. My Erdos fish is 3, through this paper with Man-Duen Choi.

Your article got a mention in a weekly maths podcast if you're interested. http://pulse-project.org/node/417 time - 41:30.

[NathanielJ]

Your article got a mention in a weekly maths podcast if you're interested. http://pulse-project.org/node/417 time - 41:30.

Awesome, thanks for the link

[Sammus]

http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=Eug4S0oAAAAJ

The paper with Raeburn gives me Erdos number 4.

I'm not allowed to post links

[chuchundra2]

My Erdos number = 4, too