Erdős number

Erdős number

Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.

My Erdős number is 3, via several connections:

Kevin Bacon number

Kevin Bacon number is defined likewise by the collaborative distance between Kevin Bacon and another person, as measured by common work on a movie or commercial.

My Kevin Bacon number is 3, via several connections:

Black Sabbath number

Black Sabbath number is, likewise, a collaborative distance measured by a common musical artwork.

My Sabbath number is 3, via [Confluence] ↔ Beata HlavenkováTony Cousins.

Erdős-Bacon and Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath numbers

Erdős-Bacon number is the sum of Erdős and Bacon numbers. My Erdős-Bacon number is 6. The list of people with Erdős-Bacon number 6 includes, e.g., Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky.

Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number is the sum of Erdős, Bacon and Sabbath numbers. My Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number is 9.