Friday, April 8, 2011

Question 1077

New guest question from Sudipto Guha aka wheelsandwings.

He asks you to connect these four people.






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Answer: People with a finite Erdos Bacon Number (which measures the
"collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that
person and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon
number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films,
by which the individual is separated from American actor Kevin Bacon.
The lower the number, the closer a person is to Erdős and Bacon, and
this reflects a small world phenomenon in academia and entertainment)

Picture 1: Stephen Hawking
Picture 2: Danica Mckellar (Winnie Cooper from Wonder Years)
Picture 3: Carl Sagan
Picture 4: Natalie Portman

7 Answers:

indian said...

Connect -- ERDOS NUMBER.
ALL OF THEM ARE HAVING ERDOS NUMBERS AFTER THEM.

Amit Dandekar said...

There can be 2 connections:

1. All the four have Erdos-Bacon Numbers
Natalie Portman --- 6
Danica McKellar ---6
Stephen Hawking --- 7
Carl Sagan --- 7

2. Arranging them by only Bacon Number
Natalie Portman --- 1
Danica McKellar --- 2
Stephen Hawking --- 3
Carl Sagan ---- 3

Prasad said...

The Guy on the first pic is Hawkings(obviously)
the guy next to him is Carl Sagan a guy who forewarded the first edition of The brief history of time
the small girl is hawkings daughter?
the lady is the head of team who designed his speech synthesizer

Kaushik said...

edos bacon number

Stumbler said...

All of them are celebrities with Erdos-Bacon numbers.

Unknown said...

Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Natalie Portman and Danica McKeller.
Connect: Erdős–Bacon number

Siddarth Pai said...

stephen hawking
carl sagan
danica mckellar
& natalie portman

erdos bacon number is your connect