Appendix: The Derivations
Ah, the derivations! You wanna know the derivations? Well, you probably shouldn’t look here — this page is an out-of-date record that I stopped updating in the summer of 2012. After that point, all official derivations and records were moved over to Ross Churchley’s site, so please head over there for the scoop. I’m keeping this page around as a historical record, and because I futzed with that damn table below for so many hours that I just can’t bear to let it go.
I know this is one UGLY ASS way to tabulate all the derivations, but hey, at least I’m not coding it directly in HTML. I really want to try to give credit where it’s due, so if I missed you, please let me know. Same for if I screwed up one of the derivations, or if you have a shorter link or completely new person to add. Contact me on twitter (@timeblimp), or Ross Churchley over at his blog, or leave a comment at Ross’ page, or send me powerful psychic rays from the transmitter in your kitchen.
To the derivations!!!!
| Badass | Erdos # | Bacon # | Sabbath # | Total EBS # |
Thanks to |
| Thomas Edison* | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | Ross Churchley |
| Adam Rutherford | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 | Adam Rutherford |
| Sir Patrick Moore | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 | Krollo |
| Woody Paul | 7 | 2 | 6 | 15 | Ross Churchley and Parax |
| Christopher Syme | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 | Christopher Syme |
| Kool Mo Dee | 8 | 2 | 4 | 14 | Sarah Falk |
| Milo Aukerman | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 | Krollo and Leith |
| Andrew Evans | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 | Andrew Evans |
| Brian Cox | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 | Ross Churchley |
| Phil Plait | 4 (maybe 3?) | 3 | 6 | 13 | Phil Plait, Tim Farley, & Ross |
| Patrick Tewson | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | Patrick’s sister Kathryn |
| Greg Graffin | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | Moosh |
| Colin Firth | 6 | 1 | 4 | 11 | Alex Gray |
| Buzz Aldrin | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 | Ross Churchley |
| Sir Terry Pratchett | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | Daibhid C |
| Brian May | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 | Ross and Bill M |
| Natalie Portman | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | Sean and Andy Smith |
| Imogen Heap | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | Louigi and Isaac |
| Richard Feynman | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | Sean, Ross, Lisa, & dirtdirt |
| James Randi | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | Tim Farley and Ross |
| Richard Vranch | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | Sarah Falk and Richard Vranch |
| Tom Lehrer | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | Ross Churchley |
| Carl Sagan | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | Ali, Suze, and Sean |
| Stephen Hawking | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | Suze and Ross |
| *Edison has been awarded the “Honorary Ross Churchley EBS Honorary Membership Award and Honor”, because he’s worth stretching a few links to get him on this list |
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Thomas Edison
Grand Total: 17
Erdos #: 6
Thomas Edison >
Francis Upton >
Helmholtz >
Friedrich Schottky >
Konrad Kopp >
Person >
Paul Erdős
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 6
TA Edison >
JS Blackton >
Florence Lawrence >
Maxine Eliott Hicks >
Oliver Platt >
Kevin Bacon
Thanks To: Ali at qi.com, and Ross Churchley
Sabbath #: 6
Thomas Edison >
Chumbawumba >
MC Fusion (Chumbawumba’s Shh and Anarchy albums) >
Chuck D >
Doug Wimbish >
Joe Satriani >
Ozzy Ozbourne (on Alice Cooper’s “Hey Stoopid”)
Thanks To: Ali at qi.com, and Ross Churchley
Adam Rutherford
Grand Total: 15
Erdos #: 6
Adam Rutherford >
Andrew Pomiankowski >
Robert M. Seymour >
Robert James Elliott >
Lawrence Markus >
Shizuo Kakutani >
Paul Erdős
Thanks To: Adam Rutherford
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 3
Adam Rutherford >
James King (“Rex Appeal” BBC4) >
Gary Oldman (“100 Greatest Movie Stars” 2003) >
Kevin Bacon (“Criminal Law” 1998)
Thanks To: Adam Rutherford
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sabbath #: 6
Adam Rutherford >
65 Days of Static (track remix) >
Andy Anderson of The Cure >
Peter Gabriel >
Tony Levin >
Alice Cooper >
Eric Singer (Black Sabbath member)
Thanks To: Adam Rutherford
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sir Patrick Moore
Grand Total: 15
Erdos #: 8
Patrick Moore >
Chris Lintott (‘Bang! – A Complete History of the Universe’) >
Ignacio Ferreras (‘Massive Elliptical Galaxies: From Cores to Halos’) >
Alessandro Melchiorri (‘Setting new constraints on the age of the Universe’) >
Martin Kunz ( ‘Cosmic structure formation with topological defects’) >
N. Aghanim (‘Constraining topology in harmonic space’) >
David Donoho (‘Cosmological non-Gaussian signature detection: comparing performance of different statistical tests’) >
Charles Chui ( ‘Special issue on diffusion maps and wavelets’) >
Paul Erdos (‘On changes of signs in infinite series’)
Thanks To: Krollo on QI.com
Bacon #: 3
Patrick Moore >
Buzz Aldrin (“The Sky At Night”) >
Jim Meskimen (“Transformers: Dark of The Moon”) >
Kevin Bacon (“Apollo 13”)
Thanks To: Krollo on QI.com
Sabbath #: 4
Sir Patrick Moore >
Evelyn Glennie >
Bjork (“My Spine”) >
Skin (“Army of Me”) >
Tommy Iommi (solo album) (Black Sabbath Member)
Thanks To: Krollo on QI.com
Woody Paul
Grand Total: 15
Erdos #: 7
Woody Paul >
James McCune >
E.L. Resler Jr (“Electromagnetic interaction with aerodynamic flows”), who has an Erdos # of 5 according to MathSciNet.
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 2
Woody Paul >
Ed Harris (via Riders in the Sky, “Sweet Dreams” 1985) >
Kevin Bacon (“Apollo 13” 1995)
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sabbath #: 6
Woody Paul >
Joey Miskulin (Riders in the Sky) >
Larry Mullen Jr. (“Rattle & Hum”) >
Brian Eno (“Passengers”) >
Simon Phillips (“801”) >
Joe Satriani >
Ozzy Ozbourne
Thanks To: Ross Churchley
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Christopher Syme
Grand Total: 14
Erdos #: 5
Chris Syme >
E. W. Blanch >
R. Goodacre >
B. Kristal >
D. F. Hsu >
Paul Erdos
Thanks to: Chris himself
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=257586&page=2
Bacon #: 3
Christopher Syme >
Charles Dance (“Murder Rooms”) >
Julia Roberts (“Michael Collins”) >
Kevin Bacon (“Flatliners”)
Thanks to: Chris himself
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=257586&page=2
Sabbath #: 6
Christopher Syme >
Mark Francis or Grant Campbell >
Cat Myers >
Timo Gross >
Chris Norman >
Suzi Quatro >
Cozy Powell
Thanks to: Chris himself
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=257586&page=2
Milo Aukerman
Grand Total: 13
Erdos #: 7
Milo Aukerman >
Weigel >
Fu >
Wang >
Lam >
Partington >
Bollobas >
Erdos
Aukerman wrote a fine paper called ‘The Arabidopsis flowering-time gene LUMINIDEPENDENS is expressed primarily in regions of cell proliferation and encodes a nuclear protein that regulates LEAFY expression’ with Detlef Weigel
From thereon it goes Weigel -> Fu -> Wang -> Lam -> Partington -> Bollobas -> Erdos
Krollo at qi.com
Bacon #: 3
Aukerman >
Flea >
Julianne Moore >
Kevin Bacon
Thanks To: Leith on qi.com
Sabbath #: 3
Milo Aukerman was in Descendents with Ray Cooper
Ray Cooper collaborated with Elton John many times
Elton John and Tony Iommi (of Black Sabbath) performed together in Freddy Mercury’s Tribute Concert
Thanks To: Krollo on qi.com
Andrew Evans
Grand Total: 13
Erdos #: 6
Andrew Evans >
T. G. Allen-Mersh >
W. F. Bodmer >
J. Kelso >
E. S. Lander >
Dan Kleitman >
Paul Erdos
Thanks to: Andrew Himself
Bacon #: 4
Andrew Evans >
Sabine Schmitz (GT Academy) >
Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear) >
Michael Fassbender >
Kevin Bacon
Thanks to: Andrew himself
Sabbath #: 3
Andrew Evans >
Andrew Cocup aka. Andy Cato of Groove Armada >
Will Young >
Adam Wakeman (keyboardist for Sabbath)
Thanks to: Andrew himself
Brian Cox
Grand Total: 13
Erdos #: 7
Brian Cox –(Journal of High Energy Physics 1999)–>
Leif Lönnblad –(Journal of High Energy Physics 2007)–>
Gösta Gustafson –(J. Math. Phys 26)–>
Bo Söderberg –(Phys. Scripta 32)–>
Boris Shraiman –(Phys. Rev. Lett. 46)–>
C. Eugene Wayne –(Lect. Notes in Pure and App. Math. 108)–>
Steven George Krantz –(European J. Combin. 9)–>
Paul Erdös
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 3 (but 2 if you allow TV shows)
Brian Cox –(Stargazing Live)–>
Jonathan Ross –(Valiant)–>
John Hurt –(Jayne Mansfield’s Car)–>
Kevin Bacon
Thanks To: Ross Churchley figured it out. Mike Whitaker pointed out the Bacon number of 2 in Ross’ blog comments
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sabbath #: 3
Brian Cox >
Darren Wharton (Dare) >
Tommy Aldrige (Thin Lizzy) >
Ozzy Ozbourne (Member of Black Sabbath, of course)
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Patrick Tewson
Grand Total: 12
Erdos #: 3
Patrick Tewson >
Adrian Raftery >
Gutti Jogesh Babu >
Paul Erdos
Patrick Tewson & Adrian Raftery http://www.stat.washington.edu/raftery/Research/PDF/tewson2006.pdf
Adrian Raftery and Gutti Jogesh Babu http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998ApJ…508..314M
BABU, GUTTI JOGESH / Paul Erods – Babu, Gutti Jogesh; Erdös, Paul. A note on the distribution function of additive arithmetical functions in short intervals. Canad. Math. Bull. 32 (1989) no. 4, 441-445. (MR 90i:11106 Reviewer: Adolf Hildebrand)
Thanks To: Kathryn, personal communication (I always wanted to say that)
Bacon #: 3
Patrick Tewson >
Ernie Joseph (“The Search For Kennyboy” 2012) >
Matt O’Leary (“Eden” 2012) >
Kevin Bacon (“Death Sentence” 2007)
Thanks To: Kathryn, personal communication (I always wanted to say that)
Oracle of Bacon
Sabbath #: 6
Patrick Tewson >
Jason Webley (live performance at wedding) >
Amanda Palmer (Evelyn Evelyn) >
Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls) >
Trent Reznor (NIN “Ghosts”) >
Dave Grohl (NIN “With Teeth”) >
Tommy Iomi (“Goodbye Lament”)
Thanks To: Kathryn, personal communication (I always wanted to say that)
Greg Graffin
Grand Total: 11
Erdos #: 5 (if we count books)
Greg Graffin >
Steve Olsen >
Joseph T. Chang >
Yuvel Peres >
Prasad Tetali >
Paul Erdos
Greg Graffin wrote Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God with Steve Olsen
who wrote Modelling the Recent Common Ancestry of All Living Humans with Joseph T. Chang
who wrote Ladder heights, Gaussian random walks and the Riemann zeta function with Yuvel Peres
who wrote A birthday paradox for Markov chains, with an optimal bound for collision in the Pollard rho algorithm for discrete logarithm. with Prasad Tetali
who wrote Representations of integers as the sum of $k$ terms with Paul Erdos.
Thanks to: Moosh at qi.com
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=24619&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
Bacon #: 3
Greg Graffin >
Rodney Bingenheimer >
David Bowe >
Kevin Bacon
Greg Graffin was in Punk’s Not Dead with Rodney Bingenheimer
who was in Back to the Beach with David Bowe
who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.
Thanks to: Moosh at qi.com
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=24619&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
Sabbath #: 3
Greg Graffin >
Jolie Hollland >
Annie Lennox >
Adam Wakeman
Greg Graffin recorded the album Cold as Clay, with backing vocals from Jolie Holland
who also provided backing vocals on David Gray’s album Kathleen, as did Annie Lennox
who has recorded with Adam Wakeman, who is in Black Sabbath.
Thanks to: Moosh at qi.com
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=24619&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
Richard Vranch
Grand Total: 9
Erdos #: 5
1) RL Vranch, B Henderson, M Pepper: Spin-dependent recombination in irradiated Si/SiO2 device structures
2) M Pepper, DA Ritchie, et al: Coulomb-Blockade directional coupler
3) DA Ritchie, S Chakraborty, et al: Spectral engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers using focused ion beam etched photonic lattices
4) Sourav Chakraborty, László Babai: Property Testing of Equivalence under a Permutation Group Action
5) László Babai, Stanley M. Selkow, Paul Erdös: Random Graph Isomorphism
Thanks to: Sarah Falk and Richard Vranch
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=24619&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
Bacon #: 2
(1) Richard Vranch + Mike McShane: The Sweeney: The Life and Work of Jim Sweeney
(2) Mike McShane + Kevin Bacon: Balto (1995)
Thanks to: Sarah Falk and Richard Vranch
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=24619&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
Sabbath #: 2
(1) Richard Vranch + Herbie Flowers: Jammin’
(2) Herbie Flowers + Tony Iommi: Bobby Harrison’s “Funkist”
Thanks to: Sarah Falk and Richard Vranch
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=24619&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
Colin Firth
Grand Total: 11
Erdos #: 6
Paper with Geriant Rees, who has an Erdos number of 5
Thanks To: Alex Gray, on Ross’ blog
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 1
Colin Firth >
Kevin Bacon (“Where the Truth Lies”)
Thanks To: Alex Gray, on Ross’ blog
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sabbath #: 4
Colin Firth >
Benny Andersson (the film “Mamma Mia”) >
Anna-Frid Lyngstad >
Phil Collins >
Ozzy Ozbourne
Thanks To: Alex Gray, on Ross’ blog
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Phil Plait
Grand Total: 13
Erdos #: 4
Phil Plait >
Henry C. Ferguson >
Robert J. Vanderbei >
Peter Fisburn >
Paul Erdos
Thanks To: Phil Plait (via Tim Farley)
http://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/153917629051056128
Bacon #: 3 (allowing for TV)
Phil Plait >
Roger Tilling (“Naked Science” 2004) >
Aretha Franklin (“Singing in the Shadow: the Children of Rock Royalty” 2003) >
Kevin Bacon (“39th Grammys” 1997)
Thanks To: Phil Plait
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/16/grant-me-some-bacon/
Sabbath #: 6
Phil Plait >
George Hrab >
Nelson Hill >
Maynard Ferguson >
Diane Schuur >
B. B. King >
Ozzy Ozbourne
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Buzz Aldrin
Grand Total: 11
Erdos #: 6
Buzz Aldrin >
J M Longuski , who has an Erdos # of 5 according to MathSciNet
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 2
Buzz Aldrin >
John Malkovich (“Transformers: Dark of My Moon” 2011) >
Kevin Bacon (“Queen’s Logic” 1991)
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sabbath #: 3
Buzz Aldrin >
Snoop Dogg >
Busta Rhymes >
Ozzy Ozbourne
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sir Terry Pratchett
Grand Total: 11
Erdos #: 4
Sir Terry Pratchett – (The Science of Discworld)->
Ian Stewart – (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 11)->
Martin A. Golubitsky – (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 )->
Bruce L. Rothschild – (J. Combinatorial Theory Ser. A 14)->
Paul Erdos
Thanks To: commenter Daibhid C at Ross’ page
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 2
Terry Pratchett – (Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic) ->
Sean Astin – (White Water Summer)->
Kevin Bacon
Thanks To: commenter Daibhid C at Ross’ page
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sabbath #: 5
Terry Pratchett inspired and contributed to the album “From The Discworld” by
Dave Greenslade ( Colosseum)->
Dick Heckstall-Smith (The Graham Bond Organisation)->
Ginger Baker (Cream)->
Jack Bruce who performed on the album Ward One by
Bill Ward of Black Sabbath
Thanks To: commenter Daibhid C at Ross’ page
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Brian May
Grand Total: 11
Erdos #: 7
Brian May –(Nature 240)–>
T R Hicks –(The Astrophysical Journal 232)–> J P Phillips –(J. Phys. G 22)–>
K Golec-Biernat –(Acta Phys. Polon. B 22)–>
Th. W. Ruijgrok –(Phys. A 84)–>
C.J. Thompson –(Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 55)–>
Mark Kac –(Amer. J. Math 62)–>
Paul Erdős.
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2009/brian-mays-erdos-bacon-number/
Bacon #: 3
Brian May –(The Adventures of Pinnochio)–>
Martin Landau –(Ed Wood)–>
Bill Murray –(Wild Things)–>
Kevin Bacon
If you allow TV concert, it could be 2:
Brian May –(The Prince’s Trust Rock Gala)–>
Phil Collins –(Balto)–>
Kevin Bacon
Thanks To: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2009/brian-mays-erdos-bacon-number/
Sabbath #: 1
Brian May played on Black Sabbath’s “Headless Cross” album
Alternatively, Cozy Powell has played for Brian May’s “Brian May Band”
Thanks To: Bill at Black Sabbath Game
http://alum.wpi.edu/~geezer/blacksabbathgame/band_frames.html
Natalie Portman
Grand Total: 11
Erdos #: 5
Thanks To: Your friendly neighborhood timeblimp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number
Bacon #: 2 (maybe 1)
Natalie Portman >
Christian Slater (“Zoolander” 2001) >
Kevin Bacon (“Murder in the First” 1995)
However: it might be 1:
Natalie Portman was in “New York, I Love You” with Kevin Bacon, though Kevin’s part was cut out of the final movie (though the Erdos-Bacon folks seem to be allowing it)
Thanks To: Your friendly neighborhood timeblimp
http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/movies/new-york-i-love-you-movie-review/
Sabbath #: 4
Natalie Portman >
Andy Samberg (“Natalie’s Rap”) >
Jack Black (“Sax Man”) >
Dave Grohl (drums on Tenacious D’s 1st album) >
Tony Iommi (“Goodbye Lament” 2000)
Thanks To: Andy Campbell Smith (follow him, @yon_fool on twitter)
personal communication (I’ve always wanted to say that)
Imogen Heap
Grand Total: 10
Erdos #: 5
Imogen Heap >
Sebastian Madgwick >
Ravi Vaidyanathan >
Brian A. Coan >
Fan R. K. Chung >
Paul Erdos
Thanks to: Isaac at metafilter.com (http://www.metafilter.com/user/8082)
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/nime2012/Program.htm
Bacon #: 2
Imogen Heap >
Eric Clapton (“Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott’s” 2008) >
Kevin Bacon (“Elvis Lives” 2003)
Thanks to: Louigi at metafilter.com (http://www.metafilter.com/user/17534)
http://www.metafilter.com/117058/Whos-got-an-ErdosBaconSabbath-number#4422086
Sabbath #: 3
Imogen Heap >
Jon Bon Jovi >
Alice Cooper >
Eric Singer
louigi on metafilter.com (http://www.metafilter.com/user/17534)
http://www.metafilter.com/117058/Whos-got-an-ErdosBaconSabbath-number#4422086
Richard Feynman
Grand Total: 10
Erdos #: 3
Feynman >
Metropolis >
Stan Ulam >
Erdos
Thanks To: Your friendly neighborhood timeblimp
http://www.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/
Bacon #: 3
Richard Feynman >
Tony Tang (“Anti-Clock” 1980) >
Brad Pitt (“Sleepers” 1996) >
Kevin Bacon
Thanks To: Your friendly neighborhood timeblimp
Oracle of Bacon
Sabbath #: 4
Richard Feynman >
Ondar >
Paul Pena (“Ghengis Blues”) >
Bonnie Raitt >
Ozzy Ozbourne
Thanks to: Commenter Lisa on Ross’ blog, Ross himself, and Commenter dirtdirt and snottydick at metafilter
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Carl Sagan
Grand Total: 9
Erdos #: 4
Thanks To: Your friendly neighborhood timeblimp
http://www.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/
Bacon #: 2 (have to allow documentaries)
Carl Sagan >
Dan Schneider (“Owned and Operated” 2012) >
Kevin Bacon (“The Big Picture” 1989)
Thanks To: Your friendly neighborhood timeblimp
Oracle of Bacon
Sabbath #: 3
Carl Sagan >
Stephen Hawking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc) >
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd’s “Division Bell”) >
Tony Iommi (“Smoke on the Water” cover on Rock Aid Armenia)
Thanks to: ali on qi.com, and suze for the Hawking-to-Sabbath link
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=24619&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45
Stephen Hawking
Grand Total: 8
Erdos #: 4
He’s on the famous list
Thanks to: Suze at qi.com
Bacon #: 2
Stephen Hawking >
Sean Astin (“Masters of Science Fiction”) >
Kevin Bacon (“White Water Summer”)
Thanks to: Suze at qi.com and Ross Churchley
Sabbath #: 2
Stephen Hawking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc) >
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd’s “Division Bell”) >
Tony Iommi (“Smoke on the Water” cover on Rock Aid Armenia)
Thanks to: Suze at qi.com
Tom Lehrer
Grand Total: 9
Erdos #: 4
Tom Lehrer –(Ann. Math. Statist. 28)–>
WF Penney –(Ann. Math. Statist. 30)–>
John Riordan –(Amer. Math. Monthly 73)–>
Ronald Graham –(Fibonacci Quart. 10)–>
Paul Erdös
Thanks to: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Bacon #: 2
Tom Lehrer –(The Frost Report)–>
John Cleese –(The Big Picture)–>
Kevin Bacon
Thanks to: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
Sabbath #: 3
Tom Lehrer >
Joe Raposo (“L-Y”) >
Frank Oz (“The First Time It Happens” from the Great Muppet Caper) >
Ozzy Ozbourne (“Born to be Wild” Muppets Album)
Thanks to: Ross Churchley (http://www.rosschurchley.com/)
http://www.rosschurchley.com/2012/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number/
James Randi
Grand Total: 10
Erdos #: 5
James Randi >
Susana Martinez-Conde >
Daniel Simons >
Emery N. Brown >
Arthur P. Dempster >
Seymour Schuster >
Paul Erdös
Thanks to: Tim Farley and Ross Churchley
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=8402310
Bacon #: 2
James Randi >
Camille Saviola (Penn & Teller’s “Get Killed”) >
Kevin Bacon (“Queen’s Logic”)
Thanks to: Tim Farley
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=8402310
Sabbath #: 2
James Randi >
Alice Cooper (touring) >
Eric Singer
Thanks to: Tim Farley
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=8402310
Kevin Bacon’s Bacon-Sabbath Number:
Jon Bon Jovi appeared on the Bacon Brothers’ album Forosco, and also appeared on Alice Cooper’s album Trash. Alice is linked to Sabbath through collaborator Eric Singer, who has played for Sabbath.
Steven Seagal
He has a bacon number of 2 – Robert Harvey was in “The Patriot” (1998) with Seagal, and also was in “Rails & Tires” (2007) with Kevin Bacon
Sabbath number: Stevie Wonder appears on his album “Songs from the Crystal Cave” with a harmonica solo (they must’ve backed up the money truck). Stevie’s Sabbath number is 5 according to the Sabbath Number website. He’s worked with Miles Davis, who worked with Anton Fig, who worked with Ace Frehley of Kiss, who worked with Eric Singer, who has played for Sabbath.
Steven Seagal -> Miles Davis -> Anton Fig -> Ace Frehley -> Eric Singer -> Sabbath
The Author’s Braggodocio in claiming Erdos Number 5:
In the interest of maintaining my anonymity, I’d rather not outline this, but for those friends of mine who think I’m full of shit, I will point out that I have two paths to Erdos from my one weak little neuroscience publication, one through Francis Crick (who late in his life worked in neuroscience), the other through the mathematician Bard Ermentrout. My path to Dr. Ermentrout is shorter (one coauthor in common), and he’s just three steps from Erdos.
Brian May
For the seven-author chain from Brian May to Erdos, please visit Ross Churchley’s blog, where he lays out the links. Which he found by hand, by the way. Which is a giant pain in the ass, as I’m sure you appreciate. Why, I ask in a trembling voice with tears streaming down my face, is there an automated web portal for searching Kevin Bacon numbers, but nothing of the sort for Erdos numbers? Isn’t there some bored computer geek out there who could hook together the important science journals with a search engine? There is a search tool that handles Erdos-number connections among math journals only, but unfortunately for us, Dr. May is an astrophysicist not a mathematician. But that shouldn’t be a problem – tons people outside of math have non-infinite Erdos numbers, even me. So, computer-geek-with-lots-of-free-time, get to work on a search engine that spans all science journals!
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