Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is re
Kevin Bacon (right) with James Purefoy, who has a Bacon number of 2: Purefoy appeared in Women Talking Dirty with Helena Bonham Carter, and Bonham Carter appeared in Novocaine with Bacon.
Erdős number
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The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, measured by joint authorship of mathematical papers. The same principle has been applied in
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
…The Bacon number of an actor is the number of degrees of separation they have from Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game. This is an application of the Erdős number concept to the Hollywood movie industry. The higher the Bacon number, the greater the separation from Kevin Bacon the actor is. The computation of a…
Paul Erdős in 1992
Paul Erdős in 1985 at the University of Adelaide teaching Terence Tao, who was then 10 years old.