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No, the Erdős number is the "distance" to Erdős, so he himself has Erdős number 0, his collaborators have 1, etc.
> Erdős himself has Erdős number 1. People who co-authored a paper with Erdős have Erdős number 2. People who co-authored a paper with someone of Erdős number 2 have Erdős number 3 and so on. No, the Erdős number is the "distance" to Erdős, so he himself has Erdős number 0, his collaborators have 1, etc.
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> Erdős himself has Erdős number 1. People who co-authored a paper with Erdős have Erdős number 2. People who co-authored a paper with someone of Erdős number 2 have Erdős number 3 and so on. No, the Erdős number is the "distance" to Erdős, so he himself has Erdős number 0, his collaborators have 1, etc.
It's quite easy for us to hold a low Erdős number (mine is 4 I think), but interestingly the majority of Hungarians have no idea who he was and why hos work was significant. That's a pity.
I love the tomato juice story from The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: > Graham was not the only one who had to put up with Erdös's kitchen antics. "Once I spent a few days with Paul," said Janos Path, a fellow Hungarian emigre. "When I entered the kitchen in the evening, I was met with a horrible sight. The floor was covered by pools of blood-like red liquid. The trail led to the refrigerator. I opened the door, and to…
Is that János Pach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Pach ?