Randy LeVeque -- Mathematical Genealogy and Erdös Number
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Mathematics Genealogy -- My students and ancestors
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My academic family tree
(also for all my students), going back to the 11th century.
Our distinguished ancestors include Copernicus, Huygens, and Leibniz.
Kindly produced by Christiane Helzel from
Mathematical
Genealogy Posters
- My Erdös number is officially 3 (via Gene Golub and Alan Hoffman).
But I can claim it is 2.5 on good authority, since Peter Lax claimed
his was 1.5, having been credited with a proof in a 1943 paper by Erdös
(when Peter was 17), as recounted for example in
Some
Famous People with Finite Erdös Numbers.
- The
MathSciNet
Collaboration Distance tool is a good way to compute your own Erdös
number, or collaboration distance from any other mathematician.
(For example, I learned the fun fact that
my son and my father have a collaboration
distance of 4, with the shortest path passing through Paul Erdös.
Which is not so surprising, since my father William J
LeVeque was a number theorist with Erdös number 1).