On 11/30/06, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
You're putting an awful lot of faith in the
completeness and accuracy of our own information ... which in this case changes or should
change every time one of a whole bunch of people publishes a preprint with a new
collaborator. (By the way, do you update ENs at the preprint or journal publication stage,
which might be years on?) It's a fun trivia game, but nightmarish, and EN2 is really
the maximum we should allow on the site.
Heh, I wasn't being serious. The Erdos number 1's might be interesting
- there are probably hundreds of those, given that he produced
something like 650 papers and rarely worked alone. But I wouldn't go
beyond that as a category. Even a list of Erdos numbers would be of
pretty marginal value as it would be unlikely to be complete, even for
low numbers.
Steve