It's a good thing I'm not included in the average or median because at an Erdos value of infinity, I would seriously distort those figures. Including people with 0 pubs would make too many values of infinity and REALLY foul up the figures. You can tell by this sophisticated post that I have had one or more publications in math. Steve Gray
At 10:15 PM 12/12/2005, Steve Gray wrote:
Interesting questions:
1. What's the largest non-infinite Erdos number? Any estimates? Wild guesses?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos_number
" Amongst all working mathematicians at the turn of the millennium, the numbers range up to 15, but the average is less than 5, and almost everyone with a finite Erdos number has a number less than 8.
According to Alex Lopez-Ortiz, all the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Fields_Medal>Fields and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Nevanlinna_Prize>Nevanlinna prize winners during the three cycles in 1986 to 1994 have Erdos number at most 9. "