Concept

Erdős number

Overview

The Erdős number (Hungarian: [ˈɛrdøːʃ]) describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, measured by joint authorship of mathematical papers. The same principle has been applied in other fields.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Erdős number

• Noam Chomsky

Related ideas

• Eugene Wigner
• Folklore
• Herbert A. Simon
• Roberto Mangabeira Unger
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Stephen Hawking
• Milton Friedman
• Infinity
• Murray Gell-Mann
• Nobel Prize
• Noam Chomsky
• Richard Posner
• Linguistics
• Richard Dedekind
• Chess
• Paul Erdős
• Max Born
• Albert Einstein
• G. H. Hardy
• John P. Burgess
• Brian Skyrms

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of mathematics.

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