My
Erdös number is at most 5:
At least according to Dave Clarke who wrote "My Erdos number is 5 (
Clarke,
Jay, Moggi, Longo, Csiszar, Erdos).".
(But
DBLP does not confirm the link Clarke/Jay nor the link Longo/Csiszar.)
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EelcoVisser - 23 Mar 2004
Dave writes:
For the record, the Longo/Csiszar connection can be found on
Erdos2. I can confirm the Clarke/Jay paper: Exploiting Shape in Parallel Programming. C B Jay, D Clarke, J Edwards. IEEE Second International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, June 1996.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/jay96exploiting.html
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EelcoVisser - 24 Mar 2004
Root: Shela (6)
My
Erdös number is at most 6:
According to the
Erdos2 list
- Erdös (0)
- Saharon Shela (1)
- Amir Pnueli (2)
According to
DBLP
Here is a part of the search tree
- SHELAH, SAHARON (1)
- Pnueli, Amir (2)
- Willem P. de Roever (3)
- Krzysztof R. Apt (3)
- Jan Bergstra (4)
- Jacob Brunekreef (4)
- Gordon D. Plotkin (4)
Root: Ullman (7)
Computer scientists should really refer to their Ullman number. Mine is 5. This is the first Erdos
link that I found quite quickly with the help of
DBLP.
According to the
Erdos2 list
According to
DBLP
Root: Salomaa
Another path might exist through
Arto Salomaa (2) but I haven't found it yet.
Conclusion
(1) The length 6 and 7 paths are completely disjoint and correspond to algebraic and strategic periods, respectively.
(2) It is surprising (or maybe not) how people with offices next to each other don't write papers together. Should do that more often.
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EelcoVisser - 16 Mar 2004