Timeline for Systems similar to Erdős numbers?
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| Jan 5, 2014 at 1:32 | vote | accept | Stanley Yao Xiao | ||
| Jan 1, 2014 at 12:50 | comment | added | Joe Silverman | As people have said, this is an interesting question, both for empirical and theoretical modeling. For the empirical model of Erdos number as time increases, one fact that may well have an influence is the increasing number of multi-person papers in mathematics. Probably this phenomenon has also been studied, but I don't know if it's been (empirically) quantified, and one would certainly need to do so in order to estimate the future distribution of Erdos numbers. | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 12:41 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 7:10 | comment | added | mathematics2x2life | Shouldn't Erdös technically have an Erdös number of $2$? He hasn't published with Erdös but he has published with someone that has published with Erdös. This is similar to the 'issue' that prompted Conway to suggest that $-1$ is prime. | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 6:21 | answer | added | Yuichiro Fujiwara | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 4:57 | history | asked | Stanley Yao Xiao | CC BY-SA 3.0 |