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- From: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Erdos number
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.184059.20378@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:40:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.001750.12213@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> <1992Nov12.104155.7564@ms.uky.edu> <EIJKHOUT.92Nov12213622@cupid.cs.utk.edu>
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- In article <EIJKHOUT.92Nov12213622@cupid.cs.utk.edu> eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov11.001750.12213@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson) writes:
- > >
- > >
- > >In article <1992Nov2.231234.19251@smds.com>, sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy) writes:
- > >>
- > >> In article <1992Oct29.170517.7780@email.tuwien.ac.at> zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at writes:
- > >> >In article <petersen.720366033@rzcspc1>, petersen@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Holger Petersen) writes:
- > >
- > >[definition of Erdos number, deleted]
- > >
- > >> So, are there any non-mathematicians with such a number?
- > >
- > >Yes. John Clough, Professor of Music at SUNY, Buffalo, wrote a paper in the
- > >Monthly with me some years ago, thereby acquiring an Erdos number of 4.
- >
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- Erdos once said that Einstein's Erdos number was 2 or 3,
- I forget which.
-
- -----Greg McColm
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