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.