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... for, according to the American Mathematical Society, I have an Erdös number of 5.

The chain goes Me → Alan Mycroft → Richard A. O'Keefe → Leon Sterling → Nicholas C. Wormald → Paul Erdös.

Woohoo!

(for those of you who don't know what on earth I'm talking about, look here)

Edit: I have been playing a bit with the AMS web site. It seems I have an Alan Turing number of 7, a Carl Friedrich Gauss number of 9 and a Catherine Greenhill number of 5 (not that many of you know here, but [livejournal.com profile] galliana knows her well).

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Date: 2005-12-16 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purplepiano.livejournal.com
5 here as well, by various paths!

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Date: 2005-12-16 03:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purplepiano.livejournal.com
But it would be four if it counted "supervised a PhD by, but with no other publications" as a collaboration, which it should do really.

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