Given that I am now the #1 hit for “self-googling” it makes sense that I would also want to acquire a lower Erdos number. My current number is infinity. Luckily, 5 is for sale on ebay. I’m less interested in the Erdos number than I am in the idea of selling collaboration. So, of course I bid :). (via CT)
Of Erdosing
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Through a bit of a fluke — wrote an article on “online scholarly communication” with a mathematician at my school — I have an Erdos of 4 (i.e., he (3) wrote a paper with RICHMOND, LAWRENCE BRUCE (2), who wrote a paper with Erdos in 1976). Cool, eh? Although before you get too puffed, you have to read the listing about the horse with an Erdos of 3, and the 4 year old with an Erdos of 4…
Hey, I miscalculated. Paul Erdos is officially “0” and not 1, so that means that RICHMOND, LAWRENCE BRUCE is a 1 and Jonathan is a 2, so that makes me a 3. Hey hey hey…
Oh, man, now I really feel out of it. Let me know if you want to write something together :). Or better yet, sell yourself on ebay! There is something to this selling collaboration that could be worked into an interesting critique of market-orientation in academia. How is selling your Erdos number all that different from being promoted based largely on the size of the grants you bring in?
Love that title… tee hee
I got a 5 ;-)
http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/archives/2003/11/05/my_erdos_number.html