Apparently, not too many people have an Erdős–Bacon Number, a goofy measure of connectedness to both Kevin Bacon, the actor, and Paul Erdős, the late mathematician. I do, but only if you stretch it to include TV series in the actor criterion. And I claim no advanced mathematical knowledge whatsoever.
Bacon Number: 3.
I appeared as an uncredited extra in the TV series, Early Edition,* in which Kyle Chandler also appeared...
Me > Kyle Chandler (Early Edition)
Kyle Chandler > John Cleese (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
John Cleese > Kevin Bacon (The Big Picture)
*Check it out, the Early Edition episode titled "Halloween," broadcast October 31, 1998.
Erdős Number: 5.
I cowrote an academic paper with a group of folks including Sam Ratick...
Me > Samuel J. Ratick (and others) "Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities..."
Samuel J. Ratick > Horst A. Eiselt "Introduction..."
Horst A. Eiselt > Joyendu Bhadury "Stability of Nash Equilibria..."
Joyendu Bhadury > Craig A. Tovey "An improved implementation and analysis of the Diaz..."
Craig A. Tovey > Paul Erdős (and Calkin) "New Ramsey bounds from cyclic graphs of prime order"
My Erdős-Bacon Number 3 + 5 = 8
Full Erdős bibliography:
Clark, G. E., S. C. Moser, S. J. Ratick, K. Dow, W. B. Meyer, S. Emani, W. Jin, J. X. Kasperson, R. E. Kasperson, and H. E. Schwarz. 1998. "Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA." Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 3(1), 59-82.
Eiselt, H. A., and S. Ratick, 2008. "Introduction [Part special issue: Location modeling dedicated to the memory of Charles S. ReVelle]." Computers and Operations Research 35 (2008), no. 2, 309–311.
Bhadury, J., and H. A. Eiselt, H. A. "Stability of Nash equilibria in locational games. RAIRO Operations Research 29 (1995), no. 1, 19–33.
Bhadury, J., and C. A. Tovey, C. A. "An improved implementation and analysis of the Diaz and O'Rourke algorithm for finding the Simpson point of a convex polygon." International Journal of Computer Mathematics 87 (2010), no. 1-3, 244–259.
Calkin, Neil J.(1-GAIT); Erdős, Paul; Tovey, Craig A.(1-GAIT)
New Ramsey bounds from cyclic graphs of prime order. (English summary)
SIAM J. Discrete Math. 10 (1997), no. 3, 381–387.
Bacon Number: 3.
I appeared as an uncredited extra in the TV series, Early Edition,* in which Kyle Chandler also appeared...
Me > Kyle Chandler (Early Edition)
Kyle Chandler > John Cleese (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
John Cleese > Kevin Bacon (The Big Picture)
*Check it out, the Early Edition episode titled "Halloween," broadcast October 31, 1998.
Erdős Number: 5.
I cowrote an academic paper with a group of folks including Sam Ratick...
Me > Samuel J. Ratick (and others) "Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities..."
Samuel J. Ratick > Horst A. Eiselt "Introduction..."
Horst A. Eiselt > Joyendu Bhadury "Stability of Nash Equilibria..."
Joyendu Bhadury > Craig A. Tovey "An improved implementation and analysis of the Diaz..."
Craig A. Tovey > Paul Erdős (and Calkin) "New Ramsey bounds from cyclic graphs of prime order"
My Erdős-Bacon Number 3 + 5 = 8
Full Erdős bibliography:
Clark, G. E., S. C. Moser, S. J. Ratick, K. Dow, W. B. Meyer, S. Emani, W. Jin, J. X. Kasperson, R. E. Kasperson, and H. E. Schwarz. 1998. "Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA." Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 3(1), 59-82.
Eiselt, H. A., and S. Ratick, 2008. "Introduction [Part special issue: Location modeling dedicated to the memory of Charles S. ReVelle]." Computers and Operations Research 35 (2008), no. 2, 309–311.
Bhadury, J., and H. A. Eiselt, H. A. "Stability of Nash equilibria in locational games. RAIRO Operations Research 29 (1995), no. 1, 19–33.
Bhadury, J., and C. A. Tovey, C. A. "An improved implementation and analysis of the Diaz and O'Rourke algorithm for finding the Simpson point of a convex polygon." International Journal of Computer Mathematics 87 (2010), no. 1-3, 244–259.
Calkin, Neil J.(1-GAIT); Erdős, Paul; Tovey, Craig A.(1-GAIT)
New Ramsey bounds from cyclic graphs of prime order. (English summary)
SIAM J. Discrete Math. 10 (1997), no. 3, 381–387.