Anyone here with an Erdős number less than 3? I have a 4, which is probably not going to change (I work in research engineering rather than research mathematics these days).
Erdős stayed at my dad's house so that they could work together. The first morning at breakfast, Erdős asked my dad to butter his toast for him. My dad refused.
That's why he doesn't have 1!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
If you count video games, I have a Bacon number of 3 because I was credited on Tiger Woods 2003-2005 with an artist named Sylvain Doreau, who is credited on Shrek. John Lithgow was in Shrek and in Footloose with Kevin Bacon.
My former coworker Li Zhang has an Erdos number of 2 and we worked together on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 (with him doing a lot more work than me).
So putting that together is an Erdos-Bacon number of 3 + 3 = 6.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-cortina-borja-2b98ab47
Also, I was in a film with Donald Sutherland (even managing to get on screen at the same time) so I think that's a Bacon number of 2.
You can use https://www.csauthors.net/distance/mandar-chitre/paul-erdos to find yours.