Re:Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance ...
by gerdesj on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:58PM
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Erdős rhymes with Kurdish.
EDIT: Oh and Erdős was the great collaborator. There is an Erdős number (Bacon and Ozzie too) which defines how close you are to him. eg if you co-authored a paper with Erdős you have a Erdős number of one. If you co-auth a paper with someone with an Erdős number of one, then you have an Erdős number of two etc.
I think that the Bacon (Kevin Bacon) number was the original and there is also a Black Sabbath number which is related to Ozzie (MHRiP).
I also gather that a very few people have managed a minimum measure of all three numbers. Feynman might be one of them (its too late to check).
EDIT: Oh and Erdős was the great collaborator. There is an Erdős number (Bacon and Ozzie too) which defines how close you are to him. eg if you co-authored a paper with Erdős you have a Erdős number of one. If you co-auth a paper with someone with an Erdős number of one, then you have an Erdős number of two etc.
I think that the Bacon (Kevin Bacon) number was the original and there is also a Black Sabbath number which is related to Ozzie (MHRiP).
I also gather that a very few people have managed a minimum measure of all three numbers. Feynman might be one of them (its too late to check).