The American Mathematical Society publishes
Mathematical Reviews, perhaps the most important
single resource for mathematical research in existence.
As part of this, and presumably for fun, they have constructed
the
MR Collaboration Distance page, where you can use
their database to find out how closely any two people
are related through a string of co-authors. It's great fun!
Here are some that I ran (on 10/14/04):
From me to:
R.H. Bing: 6
And some of my fellow faculty members:
George Avalos: 7 |