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- From: gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson)
- Subject: Re: Einstein's Erdos number
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.053332.11070@newshost.anu.edu.au>
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- Organization: CeNTRe for Number Theory Research
- References: <Btwt5H.A6n@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 05:33:32 GMT
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- In article <Btwt5H.A6n@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit) writes:
- [...]
- > In the preface to "A Tribute to Paul Erdos", Cambridge
- > University Press, 1990, it is stated that Einstein's
- > Erdos number is 2. That means there exists a person
- > who has written a paper with Einstein, and a paper with
- > Erdos. Anybody know who it is?
-
- Just a guess, but Ernst Straus was an assistant to Einstein in the late 40s,
- and surely a co-author of Erdos'.
-
- > Jeff Shallit
- > University of Waterloo
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- Gerry Myerson
-