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Erdős Number

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number), or the Erdős number, is a concept expressing how close someone is to Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős within connections formed by co-authored papers among mathematicians, or more broadly among scientists. Because Erdős co-authored an exceptionally large number of papers, his friends devised it with respect and humor. Today it is well known in the scientific community, where closeness to Erdős is discussed half-jokingly as though it were an honor.

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  • Paul ErdősComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.273 · shared title, text, tags and references