Erdos Number

Today, while working in my office, I came across a blog which referred to a great prodigy in mathematics, Paul Erdos. Earlier I saw some people mentioning on their website, that their erdos number is 1 or 2 or 3….. At that time I never understood. But now, I can understand.

First of all, Paul Erdos is a Hungarian mathematician who worked a lot on number theory and other stuff which I am never able to understand . I expect my son to understand all this. Ha Ha Ha…..

So this guy, never married, no kids, completely work alcoholic, nomad, prodigy and one thing very unique, he has the highest number of co author in his published work. Thats why one of his friend invented the concept of Erdos number.

so, if I have an erdos number of 1, that means, I have published a paper with him or I have been on of his co-author. And If I have an erdos number of 2, that means, some other guy with whom I have published a paper, that guy is the co-author of Erdos. Erdos himself has the erdos number of 0.

So what is my erdos number? Well, I have to still figure it out, at present I do not want to, but may be some time later.