My Erdos number is 3 !
A friend/labmate of mine from ASU just got her PHd. In a congratulatory exchange of messages, she was recalling our talk of the Erdos number many years ago, and mentioned I am indeed going to be 3 now. Seems that the paper in question has been published. She will, of course, be Erdos 2.
If only our paper was mathematical, it could have been real. Here is my older post on the topic.
Congratulations, Toni !
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday, June 15, 2007
Erdös number
Thanks to Toni's new publication with Dr Colbourn, it seems she gets to have an Erdös number of 2. And, since we have a couple of papers together, it must mean I suddenly have an Erdös number 3!
It felt too good to be true. Even Dr Partha has an Erdös number of 3! It was only later, on reading the official page about who gets to be in the Erdös project graph, that I realized only mathematical papers would be considered. Ah, well.
I had so much time in ASU. And Dr Lai (one of the professors on my thesis committee) was from the mathematics department as well. If only I had made better use of my time and advisers, I could have had an honest Erdös number 3 ! (staring into the past wistfully....)
It felt too good to be true. Even Dr Partha has an Erdös number of 3! It was only later, on reading the official page about who gets to be in the Erdös project graph, that I realized only mathematical papers would be considered. Ah, well.
I had so much time in ASU. And Dr Lai (one of the professors on my thesis committee) was from the mathematics department as well. If only I had made better use of my time and advisers, I could have had an honest Erdös number 3 ! (staring into the past wistfully....)
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