Lowest Erdos–Bacon number
Who
Daniel Kleitman
Where
United States ()
When
1997
Your Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of your Bacon number and your Erdős number, where the two numbers represent the fewest steps taken to link actors to Kevin Bacon, and the fewest steps to link academics to the prolific Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős (1913–1996). The person with the lowest Erdős–Bacon number is Professor Daniel Kleitman (USA), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Kleitman has co-authored multiple research papers with Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1. He also was a consultant and extra in the movie Good Will Hunting (1997), which gives him a Bacon number of 2 and a resulting Erdős–Bacon number of 3.