A little while ago I found out that I have an Erdös Number of 3.
I published a paper with Wesley Elsberry:
Wilkins, John S., and Wesley R. Elsberry. 2001. The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance. Biology and Philosophy 16 (November):711-724.
Wesley has just published (or soon will) a paper with Jeffrey Shallit of the University of Waterloo:
Elsberry, Wesley, and Jeffrey Shallit. Information theory, evolutionary computation, and Dembski’s “complex specified information”. Synthese.
and Jeffrey has a number of papers coauthored with Erdös.
I mentioned this to Mark Colyvan, who has the same number, and he tells me this is to be desired… Some guy apparently auctioned his Erdös number on eBay, coauthoring for cash. I’m not that venal (hint, hint).
Congratulations!
Wikipedia has a list of people with Erdös numbers up to 3, “List of people by Erdös number”.
We need to write a paper together – on anything. That would give me a 4, yes?
I’m listening…
A paper on the ridiculousness of Erdös Numbers ?
What about small network theory in historical citations? That would be relevant to PE and our own work.
Still waiting for the remunerative aspects to be clarified, though…