List of people by Erdős number

Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific writers of mathematical papers. He collaborated a great deal, having 511 joint authors, a number of whom also have many collaborators. The Erdős number measures the "collaborative distance" between an author and Erdős. Thus, his direct co-authors have Erdős number 1, theirs have number 2, and so forth. Erdős himself has Erdős number 0.

This list includes researchers with Erdős numbers from 0 to 3 who are notable in their own right. For more complete listings of Erdős numbers, see the databases maintained by the [http://www.oakland.edu/enp/ Erdos Number Project] or the [http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html collaboration distance calculator] maintained by the American Mathematical Society.

#0

* Paul Erdős

#1

;A

* Miklós Ajtai
* Leonidas Alaoglu
* Yousef Alavi
* Noga Alon
* Nesmith Ankeny
* Boris Aronov
* David Avis

;B

* László Babai
* Leon Bankoff
* James Earl Baumgartner
* Istvan Beck
* Andreas Blass
* Ralph P. Boas, Jr
* Béla Bollobás
* John Brillhart
* Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn

;C

* Peter Cameron
* Earl Rodney Canfield
* Sarvadaman Chowla
* Charles Kam-tai Chui
* Fan Chung
* Václav Chvátal
* John Horton Conway
* Arthur Herbert Copeland

;D

* Harold Davenport
* Jean-Marc Deshouillers
* Persi Diaconis
* Gabriel Andrew Dirac
* Jacques Dixmier
* Yael Naim Dowker
* Underwood Dudley

;E

*Peter D. T. A. Elliott

;F

* Vance Faber
* Siemion Fajtlowicz
* Ralph Faudree
* László Fejes Tóth
* William Feller
* Peter C. Fishburn
* Aviezri Fraenkel
* Péter Frankl
* Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs

;G

* Janos Galambos
* Tibor Gallai
* Fred Galvin
* Leonard Gillman
* Michael Golomb
* Ronald Graham
* Sidney Graham
* Andrew Granville
* Branko Grünbaum
* Hansraj Gupta
* Richard K. Guy
* András Gyárfás

;H

* András Hajnal
* Frank Harary
* Hans Heilbronn
* Arthur M. Hobbs
* Alan Jerome Hoffman
* Verner Emil Hoggatt, Jr.

;I

* Albert Ingham

;J

* Vojtěch Jarník

;K

* Mark Kac
* Shizuo Kakutani
* Irving Kaplansky
* Jovan Karamata
* Ke Zhao
* Murray S. Klamkin
* Maria Klawe
* Daniel Kleitman
* Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
* Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma
* Steven Krantz
* Dieter Kratsch
* Kenneth Kunen

;L

* Jack van Lint
* László Lovász

;M

* Menachem Magidor
* Kurt Mahler
* Helmut Maier
* Solomon Marcus
* Robert McEliece
* Brendan McKay
* Eric C. Milner
* Hugh Montgomery
* Peter Montgomery
* Shlomo Moran
* Leo Moser
* M. Ram Murty
* V. Kumar Murty

;N

* Melvyn Nathanson
* Jaroslav Nešetřil
* Donald J. Newman
* Ivan M. Niven

;O

* Andrew Odlyzko
* Cyril Offord

;P

* Torrence Parsons
* Richard M. Pollack
* Carl Pomerance
* Karl Prachar

;R

* Richard Rado
* Alfréd Rényi
* Hans Riesel
* Bruce Lee Rothschild
* Cecil C. Rousseau
* Arthur Rubin
* Mary Ellen Rudin

;S

* Tibor Šalát
* Richard Schelp
* Andrzej Schinzel
* John Selfridge
* Jeffrey Shallit
* Harold S. Shapiro
* Saharon Shelah
* Gustavus Simmons
* Alexander Soifer
* Vera Sós
* Ernst Specker
* Joel Spencer
* Doug Stinson
* Arthur Harold Stone
* Ernst G. Straus
* Mathukumalli V. Subbarao
* Mario Szegedy
* Gábor Szegő
* Esther Szekeres
* George Szekeres
* Endre Szemerédi

;T

* Alfred Tarski
* Alan D. Taylor
* Carsten Thomassen
* Gérald Tenenbaum
* Robert Tijdeman
* Pál Turán
* W. T. Tutte

;U

* Stanislaw Ulam

;V

* Egbert van Kampen

;W

* Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.
* Robin Wilson

;Y

* Frances Foong Yao

#2

;A

* Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
* Belmannu Acharya
* Leonard Adleman
* Gordon Agnew
* Ian F. Akyildiz
* Michael H. Albert
* David Aldous
* W. R. (Red) Alford
* Ahmet Alkan
* Eric Allender
* Warren Ambrose
* Robert Ammann
* George Andrews
* Tom M. Apostol
* Tzvi Arad
* Richard Friederich Arens
* Emil Artin
* Michael Aschbacher
* Richard Askey
* James Aspnes
* A. O. L. Atkin
* Herman Auerbach

;B

* Eric Bach
* David H. Bailey
* Alan Baker
* Ramachandran Balasubramanian
* Michel Balazard
* Bohuslav Balcar
* Zoltán Tibor Balogh
* Stefan Banach
* Ruth Aaronson Bari
* Michael Barnsley
* Tomek Bartoszyński
* Jon Barwise
* Eric Baum
* József Beck
* Richard Bellman
* Nuel Belnap
* Serge Belongie
* Rafael Benguria
* Claude Berge
* Peter Bergmann
* Elwyn Berlekamp
* Bruce C. Berndt
* R. Stephen Berry
* Tom Berson
* Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
* Evert Willem Beth
* Andrzej Białynicki-Birula
* RH Bing
* Kenneth Binmore
* Bryan John Birch
* Garrett Birkhoff
* Pamela J. Bjorkman
* David Blackwell
* Brian Blank
* Woody Bledsoe
* Manuel Blum
* Salomon Bochner
* Hans L. Bodlaender
* Enrico Bombieri
* Dan Boneh
* Richard Borcherds
* Allan Borodin
* Karol Borsuk
* David Borwein
* Jonathan Borwein
* Peter Borwein
* Prosenjit K. Bose
* Raj Chandra Bose
* Jean Bourgain
* Stephen R. Bourne
* Steven Brams
* Gilles Brassard
* Richard Brauer
* Jonathan Vincent Bray
* Jorg Brendle
* Richard Brent
* David Bressoud
* Gunnar Brinkmann
* Andrei Broder
* Andries Brouwer
* Gavin Brown
* Martin D. Buhmann

;C

* Eugenio Calabi
* Robert Calderbank
* Lennart Carleson
* Leonard Carlitz
* Paz Carmi
* Pierre Cartier
* J. W. S. Cassels
* Vint Cerf
* Timothy M. Chan
* Bernard Chazelle
* Shiing-Shen Chern
* Maria Chudnovsky
* William Gemmell Cochran
* Henri Cohen
* Sidney Coleman
* Edward Collingwood
* Irving Copi
* Don Coppersmith
* Derek Corneil
* Thomas M. Cover
* Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
* Richard Crandall
* Claude Crépeau
* Ernie Croot
* Ákos Császár
* Sándor Csörgő
* Marianna Csörnyei

;D

* Ivan Damgård
* David van Dantzig
* George Dantzig
* James Davenport
* Kenneth Davidson
* Carl R. de Boor
* Ermelinda DeLaVina
* Erik Demaine
* Arthur P. Dempster
* Keith Devlin
* Jeff Dinitz
* Michael Dinneen
* Hans Dobbertin
* David P. Dobkin
* Bruce Dodson
* Shlomi Dolev
* Joseph Leo Doob
* Adrien Douady
* Qiang Du
* Tom Duff
* Pierre Dusart
* Bernard Dwork
* Freeman Dyson

;E

* A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
* Katsuya Eda
* Jack Edmonds
* Samuel Eilenberg
* Albert Einstein
* David Eisenbud
* Noam Elkies
* Per Enflo
* David Eppstein
* Shimon Even
* Hugh Everett
* Howard Eves

;F

* Solomon Feferman
* Charles Fefferman
* Uriel Feige
* Lipót Fejér
* Michael Fekete
* Amos Fiat
* Nathan Fine
* Josh Fisher
* Ronald Fisher
* Philippe Flajolet
* Herbert Fleischner
* Matthew Foreman
* M. K. Fort, Jr.
* Hubert de Fraysseix
* Michael Freedman
* Chris Freiling
* David Fremlin
* Peter G. O. Freund
* Ophir Frieder
* John Friedlander
* Harvey Friedman
* Kurt O. Friedrichs
* D. R. Fulkerson
* William Fulton
* Hillel Furstenberg

;G

* Dov Gabbay
* David Gale
* Zvi Galil
* Mario Garavaglia
* Martin Gardner
* Michael Garey
* William Gehrlein
* Moti Gitik
* Sheldon Lee Glashow
* Stanisław Gołąb
* Dorian M. Goldfeld
* Oded Goldreich
* Herman Goldstine
* Daniel Goldston
* Shafi Goldwasser
* Eric Goles
* Solomon W. Golomb
* Gene H. Golub
* Martin Aaron Golubitsky
* Martin Charles Golumbic
* Ralph E. Gomory
* Cameron Gordon
* Mark Goresky
* Jim Gray
* Ben Green
* Curtis Greene
* Thomas N.E. Greville
* Dima Grigoriev
* Rami Grossberg
* Emil Grosswald
* Helen G. Grundman
* Leonidas J. Guibas
* Max Gunzburger

;H

* Hugo Hadwiger
* Jaroslav Hájek
* Heini Halberstam
* Marshall Hall
* Paul Halmos
* G. H. Hardy
* Glyn Harman
* Leo Harrington
* Hiroshi Haruki
* Mahdieh Hasheminezhad
* Helmut Hasse
* Johan Håstad
* David Haussler
* Leon Henkin
* Gabor Herman
* Israel Nathan Herstein
* Edwin Hewitt
* Graham Higman
* Einar Carl Hille
* Peter Hilton
* David V. Hinkley
* Edmund Hlawka
* Wilfrid Hodges
* Alfred Horn
* Roger Howe
* John Mackintosh Howie
* Ehud Hrushovski
* Roger Hui
* Alexander Hurwitz
* Martin Huxley

;I

* Douglas Iannucci
* Neil Immerman
* Russell Impagliazzo
* Henryk Iwaniec

;J

* David M. Jackson
* Thomas Jech
* Meyer Jerison
* Jia Rongqing
* Carl Jockusch
* David S. Johnson
* Norman Johnson
* Norman Lloyd Johnson
* F. Burton Jones
* Peter Jones
* Roger Jones
* Bjarni Jónsson
* Dominic Joyce
* Haim Judah
* István Juhász
* Matti Jutila

;K

* Jean-Pierre Kahane
* Gil Kalai
* Olav Kallenberg
* László Kalmár
* Akihiro Kanamori
* Ravindran Kannan
* Kao Cheng-yan
* Anna Karlin
* Narendra Karmarkar
* Richard Karp
* Marek Karpinski
* Gyula O. H. Katona
* Gyula Y. Katona
* Matthew J. Katz
* Yitzhak Katznelson
* Louis Kauffman
* Alexander S. Kechris
* Howard Jerome Keisler
* Joseph Keller
* Ken Kennedy
* Jack Kiefer
* Clark Kimberling
* John Kingman
* William English Kirwan
* David Klarner
* John R. Klauder
* Victor Klee
* Virginia C. Klema
* Bronisław Knaster
* Konrad Knopp
* Donald Knuth
* Kunihiko Kodaira
* Menachem Kojman
* Eugene Koonin
* András Kornai
* Thomas Körner
* S. Rao Kosaraju
* Ronnie Kosloff
* Bertram Kostant
* Evangelos Kranakis
* Clyde Kruskal
* Joseph Kruskal
* Harold W. Kuhn
* Markus Kuhn
* Krystyna Kuperberg
* Włodzimierz Kuperberg
* Kazimierz Kuratowski

;L

* Miklós Laczkovich
* Claude Laflamme
* Jeffrey Lagarias
* Ming-Jun Lai
* Brian LaMacchia
* Joachim Lambek
* Edmund Landau
* Eric Lander
* Robert Langlands
* Michael Langston
* Michael C. Laskowski
* Lucien Le Cam
* Imre Leader
* Jon Lee
* Charles Leedham-Green
* Derrick Henry Lehmer
* Emma Lehmer
* Abraham Lempel
* Arjen Lenstra
* Hendrik Lenstra
* Nancy Leveson
* Leonid Levin
* Raphael David Levine
* Norman Levinson
* Donald John Lewis
* Paul Leyland
* André Lichnerowicz
* Elliott H. Lieb
* Karl Lieberherr
* Mathieu Liedloff
* Yuri Linnik
* Jacques-Louis Lions
* Richard J. Lipton
* Barbara Liskov
* John Little
* John Edensor Littlewood
* Chung Laung Liu
* Jaume Llibre
* Charles Loewner
* Darrell Long
* Lee Lorch
* Michael Luby
* R. Duncan Luce
* Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger

;M

* Kevin McCurley
* Ian G. Macdonald
* Eugene McDonnell
* Angus MacIntyre
* Sheila Scott Macintyre
* David MacKay
* John McKay
* George Mackey
* Jeanette Macleod
* Jessie MacWilliams
* Roger Maddux
* Thomas L. Magnanti
* Ayan Mahalanobis [http://www.math.stevens.edu/~amahalan]
* Dorothy Maharam
* Paul Malliavin
* Udi Manber
* Heikki Mannila
* Thomas A. Manteuffel
* Edward Marczewski
* Harry Markowitz
* Alison Marr
* Robert Marshak
* Donald A. Martin
* Anders Martin-Löf
* Dragan Marušič
* Eric Maskin
* David Masser
* James Massey
* Yuri Matiyasevich
* Barry Mazur
* Peter Mazur
* Stanisław Mazur
* Kurt Mehlhorn
* Nicholas Metropolis
* Yves Meyer
* Jan Mikusinski
* Victor S. Miller
* Vitali Milman
* Michał Misiurewicz
* François Morain
* Louis Mordell
* Carlos J. Moreno
* Frederick Mosteller
* Andrzej Mostowski
* Theodore Motzkin
* David Mumford
* Jan Mycielski

;N

* David Naccache
* Subhas C. Nandy
* Moni Naor
* Crispin St. J. A. Nash-Williams
* Evelyn Nelson
* Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko
* Bernhard Neumann
* Peter M. Neumann
* Víctor Neumann-Lara
* Miron Nicolescu
* Simon P. Norton
* Peter Nyikos

;O

* Jim K. Omura
* Paul van Oorschot
* Donald Samuel Ornstein
* Patrice Ossona de Mendez
* Rafail Ostrovsky
* Alexander Ostrowski

;P

* Igor Pak
* Victor Pambuccian
* Jeff Paris
* Jonathan Partington
* Oren Patashnik
* Raj Pathria
* Gheorghe Paun
* Luke Pebody
* Heinz-Otto Peitgen
* David Peleg
* József Pelikán
* Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai
* Nick Pippenger
* Tomaž Pisanski
* David Plaisted
* Vera Pless
* Amir Pnueli
* George Pólya
* Cheryl Praeger
* Vaughan Ronald Pratt
* Thomas Prellberg
* Franco P. Preparata
* Karel Prikry
* Teodor Przymusiński

;Q

* Louis Quintas
* Jean-Jacques Quisquater

;R

* Michael O. Rabin
* Charles Rackoff
* Stanisław Radziszowski
* Stefan Ralescu
* Olivier Ramaré
* Dana Randall
* C. R. Rao
* Louise Arakelian-Raphael
* Steen Rasmussen
* Michel Raynaud
* D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
* Alexander Razborov
* László Rédei
* George M. Reed
* Irving S. Reed
* Edward Reingold
* Omer Reingold
* Frigyes Riesz
* Gerhard Ringel
* John Riordan
* Jorma Rissanen
* Ron Rivest
* Herbert Robbins
* Abraham Robinson
* Judith Roitman
* Gian-Carlo Rota
* Klaus Roth
* Gordon Royle
* Ariel Rubinstein
* Steven Rudich
* Walter Rudin
* Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski

;S

* Donald G. Saari
* Thomas L. Saaty
* Jawad Salehi
* Raphaël Salem
* Arto Salomaa
* Peter Sarnak
* Claus P. Schnorr
* Isaac Jacob Schoenberg
* Arnold Schönhage
* Richard Schroeppel
* Issai Schur
* Dana Scott
* Jennifer Seberry
* Atle Selberg
* Jean-Pierre Serre
* Simone Severini
* Adi Shamir
* Micha Sharir
* Goro Shimura
* S. S. Shrikhande
* Wacław Sierpiński
* Joseph H. Silverman
* Thoralf Skolem
* David Slepian
* Neil Sloane
* Cedric Smith
* Gustave Solomon
* Robert M. Solovay
* Eugene Spafford
* Richard P. Stanley
* Michael Starbird
* Harold Stark
* Sergey Borisovich Stechkin
* J. Michael Steele
* Elias M. Stein
* Hugo Steinhaus
* Jacques Stern
* Shlomo Sternberg
* Marshall Harvey Stone
* Volker Strassen
* Daniel W. Stroock
* Bernd Sturmfels
* Madhu Sudan
* Sun Zhiwei
* Klaus Sutner
* Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

;T

* Franklin Tall
* Dov Tamari
* Richard A. Tapia
* Éva Tardos
* Gábor Tardos
* Robert Tarjan
* Olga Taussky-Todd
* Herman J.J. te Riele
* Max Tegmark
* Shang-Hua Teng
* Thorsten Theobald
* William Thurston
* John Todd
* Stevo Todorčević
* Godfried Toussaint
* Marcello Truzzi
* Albert W. Tucker
* Bryant Tuckerman
* John Tukey
* Helge Tverberg
* Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff

;U

* George Eugene Uhlenbeck
* Jeffrey Ullman

;V

* Alfred van der Poorten
* Harry Vandiver
* Eric van Douwen
* Jan van Mill
* Scott Vanstone
* S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
* Robert Lawson Vaught
* Anatoly Vershik
* Petr Vopěnka
* Gheorghe Vrânceanu

;W

* Stan Wagon
* Abraham Wald
* Peng-Jun Wan
* Ian Wanless
* John Clive Ward
* Michael Waterman
* Peter J. Weinberger
* Lloyd R. Welch
* Andrew B. Whinston
* Douglas R. White
* Hassler Whitney
* Norbert Wiener
* Avi Wigderson
* Herbert Wilf
* Alex Wilkie
* Yorick Wilks
* Robert Arnott Wilson
* Shmuel Winograd
* Jack Keil Wolf
* Thomas Wolff
* Jacob Wolfowitz
* Stephen Wolfram
* W. Hugh Woodin
* Trevor Wooley
* E. M. Wright
* Mario Wschebor

;Y

* Andrew Yao
* Shing-Tung Yau
* Moti Yung

;Z

* Don Zagier
* Hans Julius Zassenhaus
* Doron Zeilberger
* Günter M. Ziegler
* Paul Zimmermann
* Štefan Znám
* Herbert Zuckerman
* Antoni Zygmund

#3

;A

* Carlisle Adams
* Manindra Agrawal
* Yakir Aharonov
* Kenneth Arrow
* Michael Artin
* Robert Aumann

;B

* W. W. Rouse Ball
* Nina Bari
* Hyman Bass
* Gilbert Baumslag
* Eli Biham
* Joan Birman
* Alex Biryukov
* Armand Borel
* Max Born
* Raoul Bott
* Samuel L. Braunstein
* Roger W. Brockett
* William Browder
* Lawrie Brown
* Viggo Brun

;C

* Luis Caffarelli
* Guido Caldarelli
* Alberto Calderón
* David J E Callaway
* Élie Cartan
* Henri Cartan
* Gregory Chaitin
* David Chaum
* Jeff Cheeger
* Jacek Cichoń
* Alain Connes
* Stephen Cook
* David Cox

;D

* Ingrid Daubechies
* Paul Davies
* Ennio de Giorgi
* Gerard Debreu
* Pierre Deligne
* Whitfield Diffie
* Jack Dongarra
* Clifford Hugh Dowker
* Eugene Dynkin

;E

* John Carew Eccles

;F

* Herbert Federer
* Walter Feit
* Enrico Fermi
* Richard Feynman
* Thomas Fink
* Paul Frampton
* Hans Freudenthal
* Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
* Kenichi Fukui

;G

* Israel Gelfand
* Murray Gell-Mann
* Andrew Gleason
* Paul Glendinning
* Kurt Gödel
* Daniel Gorenstein
* Brian Greene
* Phillip Griffiths
* Mikhail Gromov
* Victor Guillemin

;H

* Richard Hamilton
* Robin Hartshorne
* Herbert Hauptman
* Martin Hellman
* Friedrich Hirzebruch
* C.A.R. Hoare
* Melvin Hochster
* John Hopcroft
* Lars Hörmander

;I

* Kiyoshi Itō
* Kenneth Iverson

;J

* Nathan Jacobson
* Zvonimir Janko
* Jonathan A. Jones
* Vaughan Jones

;K

* Burt Kaliski
* Daniel Kane
* David Kazhdan
* Joseph Keller
* Robion Kirby
* Jon Kleinberg
* Lars Knudsen
* Christof Koch
* Joseph Kohn
* Walter Kohn
* Maxim Kontsevich

;L

* Xuejia Lai
* Willis Lamb
* Serge Lang
* Peter Lax
* John Leech
* Solomon Lefschetz
* Jean Leray
* Hans Lewy
* Michael L. Littman
* George Lusztig

;M

* Dusa McDuff
* John Mackey
* Saunders Mac Lane
* Curtis McMullen
* Robert MacPherson
* Benoît Mandelbrot
* Grigory Margulis
* John Mather
* Lambert Meertens
* Silvio Micali
* John Milnor
* James Mirrlees
* Deane Montgomery
* Cathleen Synge Morawetz
* Shigefumi Mori
* Jürgen Moser
* Sean Murphy

;N

* Louis Nirenberg
* Sergei Petrovich Novikov

;O

* Andrei Okounkov
* Lars Onsager
* Øystein Ore
* Mark Overmars

;P

* Raymond Paley
* Jacob Palis
* Wolfgang Pauli
* Steven Pemberton
* Roger Penrose
* Jean Piaget
* John Platt
* Josef Pieprzyk
* Bart Preneel
* Ilya Prigogine
* Rudolf Podgornik
* Geoffrey Pullum
* Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro

;Q

* Daniel Quillen

;R

* Tibor Radó
* Srinivasa Ramanujan
* Norman Ramsey
* Kenneth Alan Ribet
* Matt Robshaw
* Phillip Rogaway
* Pierre Rosenstiehl

;S

* Abdus Salam
* Richard Schoen
* Jan Arnoldus Schouten
* Erwin Schrödinger
* Jean-Pierre Serre
* Claude Shannon
* Carl Ludwig Siegel
* Herbert Simon
* Isadore Singer
* Donald C. Spencer
* John R. Steel
* Norman Steenrod
* Charles Stein
* Robert Steinberg
* Otto Stern
* Dennis Sullivan
* Michio Suzuki

;T

* Terence Tao
* John Tate
* John G. Thompson
* Stanisław Trybuła

;U

* Karen Uhlenbeck

;V

* Leslie Valiant
* Serge Vaudenay
* Michael Viscardi
* John von Neumann

;W

* David Wagner
* Steven Weinberg
* David B. Weinberger
* Eric W. Weisstein
* Barry Wellman
* Wendelin Werner
* John Archibald Wheeler
* Arthur Whitney
* Eugene Wigner
* Frank Wilczek
* Andrew Wiles
* Edward Witten
* William Wootters
* Gisbert Wüstholz

;Y

* Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

;Z

* Lotfi Asker Zadeh
* Oscar Zariski
* Efim Zelmanov