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Richard Gibbs, Prepare for Some Random Phone Calls

May 16, 2007

Is everyone familiar with their Erdos number? GTO thinks of it as a brainy version of the Kevin Bacon game -- determining how many degrees separate you from someone else (most of the time, Kevin Bacon, but in this instance, mathematician Paul Erdos).

In a post on the evolgen blog this week, blogger RPM asks whether it's time for this community to have its own Paul Erdos or Kevin Bacon -- and suggests Richard Gibbs at Baylor as the person to connect to.

 

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