Does anyone on the Foldit Nature paper or player have an Erdos Number?

Started by Tlaloc

infjamc Lv 1

According to http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html , Andrew Leaver-Fay has an Erdos number of at most 3:

Andrew Leaver-Fay coauthored with Jack Scott Snoeyink MR2306650
Jack Scott Snoeyink coauthored with Richard M. Pollack MR1014741 (91a:68265)
Richard M. Pollack coauthored with Paul Erdős1 MR1007715 (90f:05077)

So, it's at most 4 for the rest of us…

Tlaloc Lv 1

4 is a pretty low Erdos number. I'm happy with 4.

Seth, Firas, and the rest of the team who actually deserve it should be proud of that number. Andrew already has a 3, so no benefit for him, but a 3 is darn good.

I'll get to joke, though, that I have a 4.

admin Staff Lv 1

Let's hope someone with an Erdos number of 1 has played Foldit. Then we'd all have Erdos numbers of 2 – and at this point you can't get a new Erdos number lower than that. ;)

Please don't think of the "Foldit players" entry on the author list as something of a joke, as you're implying with "actually deserve it". Some players' contribution I'd rank as equal or greater than that of several named authors. No disrespect intended to the named authors: I rather think all of us, to some extent, helped contribute to the results published.