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- From: shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit)
- Subject: Re: Einstein's Erdos number
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <Btwt5H.A6n@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Sep2.053332.11070@newshost.anu.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:46:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.053332.11070@newshost.anu.edu.au> gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson) writes:
- >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
- >
- >Gerry Myerson
-
- Ernst G. Straus is the correct answer; he co-wrote papers with
- Einstein in 1945-6 (e.g. Ann. Math. 47 (1946), 731-741) and
- many with Erdos (e.g. Pacific J. Math. 3 (1953), 689-694).
-
- Jeff
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