Subject: RE: [hackers-il] Re-inventing the Wheel

From: Chen Shapira <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:03:08 +0200

> So, anyone here has a non infinite Erdos number or know one who does?
> ( http://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/readme.html for those 
> unfamilier with
> the concept)

One of my teachers, Prof. Kalay of HUJI is Erdos 1.

I knew someone who claimed to be Erdos 0, i.e. he claimed to have wrote one
of Erdos papers himself.
The story says that he was once the editor of "Mathematical Review", and he
reviewed one of Erdos papers. While reviewing, he noticed a more elegant way
to prove the thing, so he rewrote the article, and sent it to Erdos. Erdos,
however, was away at the time, and couldn't be reached.
He was so sure Erdos will like his proof, that he published his proof under
Erdos name.

Chen.