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(I saw this on a math department bulletin board about 1960) A theorem both deep and profound States that every circle is round But in a paper by Erdos Writt
by mjcohen 10mo ago
(I saw this on a math department bulletin board about 1960)
A theorem both deep and profound
States that every circle is round
But in a paper by Erdos
Written in Kurdish
A counterexample is found
- ChicagoBoy11 10mo agoI suspect there is a great joke embedded in here, but sadly it went over my head. Any help?
- gerdesj 10mo agoErdős rhymes with Kurdish. EDIT: Oh and Erdős was the great collaborator. There is an Erdős number (Bacon and Ozzie too) which defines how close you are to him. eg if you co-authored a paper with Erdős you have a Erdős number of one. If you co-auth a paper with someone with an Erdős number of one, then you have an Erdős number of two etc. I think that the Bacon (Kevin Bacon) number was the original and there is also a Black Sabbath number which is related to Ozzie (MHRiP). I also gather that a very few people have managed a minimum measure of all three numbers. Feynman might be one of them (its too late to check).