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- From: kriman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Alfred M. Kriman)
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- Subject: Re: Einstein's Erdos number
- Summary: A.E. had >20 coauthors on journal articles.
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- Date: 7 Sep 92 23:38:06 GMT
- References: <NIALL.92Sep2220055@scheria.nmsu.edu> <2aa7a8a2wnr070@ark.abg.sub.org> <1992Sep7.181616.24038@cs.mcgill.ca>
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- Continuing a thread on Einstein's Erdos number in
- <NIALL.92Sep2220055@scheria.nmsu.edu> (I guess),
- niall@nmsu.edu (Niall Graham) writes:
- > [. . .] Einstein's co-authors were
- >Ehrenfest, Lorentz, Minkowski, Somerfeld, Straus, Weyl.
- >Straus' co-authors include Erdos and Cantor.
- >Source: From Figure 1 of "On properties of a well-known graph or
- >what is your ramsey number?" Annals of the New York Academy of
- >Sciences, Vol. 328. The author calls himself Tom Odda of Xanadu University.
-
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- In article <2aa7a8a2wnr070@ark.abg.sub.org>
- ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan) asks:
- >and Rosen, Podolsky ?
-
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- In article <1992Sep7.181616.24038@cs.mcgill.ca>
- prakash@cs.mcgill.ca (Prakash Panangaden) writes:
- >Yes what about Podolsky and Rosen? What about Leopold Infeld? I have read
- >both these papers so I am certain that they were co-authors of Einstein.
- >Also I am very surprised to see that Lorentz and Minkowski are listed as
- >co-authors of Einstein. Is it possible that this is an error stemming from
- >the fact that there is a collection of early papers on relativity that
- >includes papers by Einstein, Lorentz and Minkowski (all solo authored).
- >I have this book and noticed that the authors are listed as Einstein,
- >Lorentz, Minkowski,... I am also curious about papers that he may have
- >written with Weyl since I have another collection of papers that includes
- >solo authored papers by Einstein and by Weyl. Of course I am not saying that
- >Einstein did not write papers with all these people only that it is
- >surprising especially since he said once how much he disliked Minkowski's
- >work!
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- I think P.P. scored a direct hit: Probably Tom Odda based himself on
- book authorships only.
- Bram Pais's scientific biography of Einstein [1] contains an appendix
- about A.E.'s scientific collaborators (chap. 29). Thirty-two are listed,
- including those previously attested on the net (Straus, Podolsky, Rosen,
- Infeld) on the basis of actual papers. The following footnote describes
- the selection: "I believe but cannot certify that the list of collaborators
- given in what follows is complete. I do not include men such as Besso,
- with whom Einstein had important scientific discussions not accompanied or
- followed by a joint enterprise." The publication of a jointly-authored
- paper was not a sine qua non for inclusion in the list. In some cases
- including Szilard (unless you count the letter to FDR), the only joint
- publications were patent disclosures. Some other collaborations also
- did not lead to joint papers. Perhaps the most notable of these was a
- one-year interaction with C. Lanczos.
-
- [1] _'Subtle is the Lord...': The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein_,
- by Abraham Pais (Oxford Univ. Press, 1982).
-