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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Erdos number
- Message-ID: <EIJKHOUT.92Nov12213622@cupid.cs.utk.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:36:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.001750.12213@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
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- In-reply-to: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:41:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.001750.12213@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov2.231234.19251@smds.com>, sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy) writes:
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- >> In article <1992Oct29.170517.7780@email.tuwien.ac.at> zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at writes:
- >> >In article <petersen.720366033@rzcspc1>, petersen@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Holger Petersen) writes:
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- >[definition of Erdos number, deleted]
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- >> So, are there any non-mathematicians with such a number?
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- >Yes. John Clough, Professor of Music at SUNY, Buffalo, wrote a paper in the
- >Monthly with me some years ago, thereby acquiring an Erdos number of 4.
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- With me the case is the other way around: my Erd"os number is three
- through an electronics engineer who co-authored with Richard Guy.
- His two is probably a lower bound, unless Erd"os himself wrote
- about non-mathematical subject.
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- Victor.
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