http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2228 This is a supplemental blog for a course which will cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:24:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2228#comment-1399 Cornell Info 204 - Networks » Blog Archive » Bacon?? How about six degrees of John J. Abel and Paul Erdös? Sun, 13 May 2007 05:52:09 +0000 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2228#comment-1399 [...] This game is similar to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game (see earlier blog post), or more similar to the game of mathematicians, who have an Erdos number that shows how close they are to the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos, who was famous for his huge number of collaborators (over 500) and for being one of the most prolific publishers of mathematical papers in history (around 1,500). Read about The Erdös Number Project, a project with a LOT of interesting detail. [...] […] This game is similar to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game (see earlier blog post), or more similar to the game of mathematicians, who have an Erdos number that shows how close they are to the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos, who was famous for his huge number of collaborators (over 500) and for being one of the most prolific publishers of mathematical papers in history (around 1,500). Read about The Erdös Number Project, a project with a LOT of interesting detail. […]

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