Re:Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
by chubot on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:57PM
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I admit I geeked out and calculated this a couple months ago, after I was credited on my first academic paper (my career is in programming)
If you count video games, I have a Bacon number of 3 because I was credited on Tiger Woods 2003-2005 with an artist named Sylvain Doreau, who is credited on Shrek. John Lithgow was in Shrek and in Footloose with Kevin Bacon.
My former coworker Li Zhang has an Erdos number of 2 and we worked together on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 (with him doing a lot more work than me).
So putting that together is an Erdos-Bacon number of 3 + 3 = 6.
If you count video games, I have a Bacon number of 3 because I was credited on Tiger Woods 2003-2005 with an artist named Sylvain Doreau, who is credited on Shrek. John Lithgow was in Shrek and in Footloose with Kevin Bacon.
My former coworker Li Zhang has an Erdos number of 2 and we worked together on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 (with him doing a lot more work than me).
So putting that together is an Erdos-Bacon number of 3 + 3 = 6.