I danced with a man, who co-authored a paper with a girl, who appeared in a film with The Prince Of Wales
2nd August, 2007
My Erdös-Bacon number seems to be 6. At any rate my Erdös-number is (at most) 4, and my Bacon-number comes out at a dubious 2: When I was young I did some voice-over work in Empire Of The Sun, in which John Malkovich (Bacon-number 1) appeared.
UPDATE: Doormat points out that my Erdös-number is 3. Thus my E-B number is a questionable 5, which until recently would have made me a very doubtful joint world-record holder.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
No, you have Erdos number 3. You have a paper with Macpherson, who coauthored with Peter Cameron, who has a paper with Erdos. Which is significantly better than moi.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
That a fascinating link to some baseball player, but it seems that he has neither acted in a film, nor published a mathematical paper…
August 10th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Not so. He appeared in Summer Catch with Susan Gardner, who was in In The Cut with KB.
And… he once autographed the same baseball as Erdos. Hence he has E-B number 3.
This also makes me more confident about my 5, since comedy claims evidently count.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Right you are, sir. Although, personally, autographing a ball for Erdos doesn’t count in the Erdos-number stakes.
October 6th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Thank you for sharing!