Skip to main content.
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

ASU Math Awareness Month 2004


Internet Mapping Project
http://research.lumeta.com/ches/map/
Find out about the mathematics involved in mapping the vast network you're currently connected to!

The Erdös Number Project
http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdoshp.html "Paul Erdös (1913–1996), the widely-traveled and incredibly prolific Hungarian mathematician of the highest caliber, wrote hundreds of mathematical research papers in many different areas, many in collaboration with others. His Erdös number is 0. Erdös’s co-authors have Erdös number 1. People other than Erdös who have written a joint paper with someone with Erdös number 1 but not with Erdös have Erdös number 2, and so on." What's your Erdös number?

This graph is related to studies of the small-world effect: the fact that "most pairs of vertices in most networks seem to be connected by a short path''.
-- M. E. J. Newman, The structure and function of complex networks, SIAM Review 45, 167-256 (2003).


Last Update: Sun Mar 21 17:04:56 MST 2004
Page Contact: kaliszewski@asu.edu
Copyright © ABOR