12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
9:35 p.m.
At 10:15 PM 12/12/2005, Steve Gray wrote:
Interesting questions:
1. What's the largest non-infinite Erdos number? Any estimates? Wild guesses?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos_number " Amongst all working mathematicians at the turn of the millennium, the numbers range up to 15, but the average is less than 5, and almost everyone with a finite Erdos number has a number less than 8. According to Alex Lopez-Ortiz, all the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Fields_Medal>Fields and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Nevanlinna_Prize>Nevanlinna prize winners during the three cycles in 1986 to 1994 have Erdos number at most 9. "