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Famous trails to Paul Erdős (1999)
| Venue: | MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCER |
| Citations: | 24 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Castro99famoustrails,
author = {Rodrigo De Castro and Jerrold W. Grossman},
title = {Famous trails to Paul Erdős},
journal = {MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCER},
year = {1999},
volume = {21},
pages = {51--63}
}
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Abstract
The notion of Erdős number has floated around the mathematical research community for more than thirty years, as a way to quantify the common knowledge that mathematical and scientific research has become a very collaborative process in the twentieth century, not an activity engaged in solely by isolated individuals. In this paper we explore some (fairly short) collaboration paths that one can follow from Paul Erdős to researchers inside and outside of mathematics. In particular, we find that all the Fields Medalists up through 1998 have Erdős numbers less than 6, and that over 60 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine have Erdős numbers less than 9.
