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Jim Davies's Erdos Number: 5
Paul Erdos (pronounced "AIR-dish") was a prolific mathematician who
published some 1500 papers with collaborators all over the world. It
is the part of the culture of mathematics to calculate your
"Erdos
Number", which is the number of degrees of separation you are from
Erdos through co-authoring papers.
Turns out I have an Erdos number of 5, through:
Paul Erdos (0): David Avis (1): David Rappaport (2): Henk Meijer (3):
Janice Glasgow (4): Jim Davies (5)
Through the following publications:
Glasgow, J., Kuo, T. & Davies, J. (2006). Protein structure
from contact maps: A case-based reasoning approach. Information
Science Frontiers, Special Issue On Knowledge Discovery In
High-Throughput Biological Domains. 8: 29--36
Glasgow, J.I., Jenkins, M.A., McCrosky, C. and Meijer H.,
``Expressing Parallel Algorithms in Nial", Parallel Computing,
Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 331-347, 1989.
J. M. Diaz-Banez, F. Hurtado, H. Meijer, D. Rappaport,
T. Sellares, The Largest Empty Annulus Problem, International
Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Vol. 13, No. 4,
August 2003.
D. Avis and D. Rappaport.
Computing monotone simple circuits in the plane.
In G. T. Toussaint, editor, Computational Morphology, pages
13-23. North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1988.
D. Avis, P. Erdos, and J. Pach, "Distinct Distances Determined
by a Subset of Points in Space," Computational Geometry: Theory and
Applications, Vol. 1, pp. 1-12 (1991).
Jim Davies