Anonymous wrote:There's a famous mathematician, Paul Erdos (Hungarian, spoke at NDSU one time). In the mathematics world, people have an Erdos number. Your number is 1 if you co-authored a paper with him, 2 if you co-authored with someone whose Erdos is 1, and so on. (Hank Aaron is on there, they both got honorary PhDs at some university and Erdos signed a baseball for Hank). Similar to 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
What someone needs to do is figure out the Epstein number for, like, everyone in the 1% (at the very least).
I mean. I get what you're saying. But I hate to think he's central. Being connected to him seems to mean you're both wealthy or influential AND a fool.