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I was just looking up my Erdős number, and it occurs to me that there are a lot of brainy types on Hatrack. Does anyone else have an Erdős number?
Mine is 6, which I'm quite proud of.
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On a totally unrelated note, I just discovered I have a Morphy number of 6, which is better than I would have thought. Posts: 3486 | Registered: Sep 2002
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I might liberally be given an Erdos number of 4, as I was advised on several music theory papers by a mathematician with a number of 3. That's putting it very loosely- he was never my formal advisor. More like we had coffee together and he gave me pointers.
On a more impressive note, as a composer I have a Stravinsky number of 3, and as a guitarist, a Segovia number of 2. These days, there few people with higher numbers than that. The interesting thing about the Segovia number is that basically, I am aware that when my teacher gave me advice, he was surely sometimes imparting the exact words of his own (and that teacher's) teacher. That person being Andres Segovia, among other people.
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My Erdős number is 4 (Jones-Mitter-Zeitouni-Diaconis-Erdős).
I've also been looking at my Academic Genealogy. One line currently stops at Purdue in the 60s, but my other line goes back to Germany and then Italy in the 1400s. That line includes Norbert Wiener, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Liebniz, and Copernicus.
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Since someone brought up Morphy numbers, as far as wins are concerned, my Kasparov number is 3 and I think my Morphy number is 5 (assuming simuls count).
No publications in science or math.
Edit: Nevermind, my Morphy number is 4. I forgot that I beat Bisguier during an online simul.
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"Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe is actually Christopher Lee."
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: "Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe is actually Christopher Lee."
But what's his Bacon number?
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According to the Oracle of Bacon, Christopher Lee has a Bacon number of 2, but using "try another link" I got about a dozen different connections with that number before I stopped trying.
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If high school musicals counted, my Bacon number would be 4:
I was in Fiddler on the roof with: Scott Buckwald (I) was in Sensations (1987) with Gary Warner (I) was in Godzilla (1998) with Glenn Morshower was in The River Wild (1994) with Kevin Bacon
If personal relations counted, my mother was Kevin Bacon's first cousin's roomate at Oakwood School (Boarding prep school)
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If personal relationships counted, one of my missionary companions was an extra in Footloose, giving me a Bacon number of 2.
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quote:On a more impressive note, as a composer I have a Stravinsky number of 3, and as a guitarist, a Segovia number of 2. These days, there few people with higher numbers than that. [Big Grin]
Perhaps you meant lower rather than higher. I suspect that the number of people with infinite Stravinsky and Segovia numbers is more than just a few.
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The interesting thing about the Segovia number is that basically, I am aware that when my teacher gave me advice, he was surely sometimes imparting the exact words of his own (and that teacher's) teacher. That person being Andres Segovia, among other people.
