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  3. From: niall@nmsu.edu (Niall Graham)
  4. Subject: Re: Einstein's Erdos number
  5. In-Reply-To: gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au's message of Wed, 2 Sep 92 05:33:32 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <NIALL.92Sep2220055@scheria.nmsu.edu>
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  8. Organization: Computing Research Lab
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  10. Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:00:55 GMT
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  14. >Just a guess, but Ernst Straus was an assistant to Einstein in the late 40s, 
  15. >and surely a co-author of Erdos'. 
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  17. Correct.   Einstein's co-authors were 
  18. Ehrenfest, Lorentz, Minkowski, Somerfeld, Straus, Weyl.
  19. Straus' co-authors include Erdos and Cantor.
  20. Source: From Figure 1 of "On properties of a well-known graph or
  21. what is your ramsey number?"  Annals of the New York Academy of
  22. Sciences, Vol. 328. The author calls himself Tom Odda of Xanadu University.
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  24. Niall Graham
  25. Los Alamos
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