I recently discovered I have an Erdos Number of 3, i.e. I’ve published with someone who is 2 removed from publishing with Paul Erdos, the “Oddballs oddball.”

The links are as follows:

• John Beverley coauthored with Yang Wang

• Yang Wang coauthored with Frank Hsu

• Frank Hsu coauthored with Paul Erdös

The distribution of Erdös numbers looks like (from “Facts about Erdos Numbers”):

      Erdös number  0  ---      1 person
      Erdös number  1  ---    504 people
      Erdös number  2  ---   6593 people
      Erdös number  3  ---  33605 people +1 John Beverley
      Erdös number  4  ---  83641 people
      Erdös number  5  ---  87760 people
      Erdös number  6  ---  40014 people
      Erdös number  7  ---  11591 people
      Erdös number  8  ---   3146 people
      Erdös number  9  ---    819 people
      Erdös number 10  ---    244 people
      Erdös number 11  ---     68 people
      Erdös number 12  ---     23 people
      Erdös number 13  ---      5 people

I’ve also discovered that I’ve a Dijkstra Number of 4, through the following links:

• John Beverley coauthored with Gilbert Omenn

• Gilbert Omenn coauthored with Todd Smith

• Todd Smith coauthored with Jayadev Misra

• Jayadev Misra coauthored with Edsger Dijkstra

The above information all being pulled from co-authors.net.