Erdös Number Records

The coauthors of Paul Erdös tend to be prolific collaborators themselves. Here are some extremes taken from our 2020 data.

Coauthors of Erdös with many other coauthors:

ALON, NOGA MORDECHAI 520

HARARY, FRANK* 315

COLBOURN, CHARLES JOSEPH 282

TUZA, ZSOLT 278

LUCA, FLORIAN 277

SALAMON, PETER 267

SHELAH, SAHARON 262

WEST, DOUGLAS BRENT 239

HSU, DERBIAU FRANK 216

GRAHAM, RONALD LEWIS* 206

CAMERON, PETER JEPHSON 190

SHALLIT, JEFFREY OUTLAW 190

BOLLOBAS, BELA 188

JANSON, SVANTE 181

PACH, JANOS 174

KOREN, ISRAEL 166

HENNING, MICHAEL ANTHONY 161

KLEITMAN, DANIEL J. 157

RODL, VOJTECH 154

ODLYZKO, ANDREW MICHAEL 153

CHUNG, FAN RONG KING (GRAHAM) 152

SAKS, MICHAEL EZRA 151

Coauthors of Erdös with many other coauthors who are also coauthors of Erdös:

ALON, NOGA MORDECHAI 58

GRAHAM, RONALD LEWIS* 47

BOLLOBAS, BELA 44

HARARY, FRANK* 44

RODL, VOJTECH 43

FUREDI, ZOLTAN 40

TUZA, ZSOLT 40

SOS, VERA TURAN 39

GYARFAS, ANDRAS 35

SPENCER, JOEL HAROLD 35

PACH, JANOS 34

CHUNG, FAN RONG KING (GRAHAM) 33

FAUDREE, RALPH JASPER, JR.* 31

KLEITMAN, DANIEL J. 31

HAJNAL, ANDRAS* 30

POMERANCE, CARL BERNARD 30

SZEMEREDI, ENDRE 30

People with Erdös number 2 having many coauthors with Erdös number 1:

Lesniak, Linda M. (Lesniak-Foster) 19

Duffus, Dwight A. 17

Beineke, Lowell Wayne 15

Frieze, Alan M. 15

Rucinski, Andrzej 15

Slater, Peter J. 15

Haxell, Penny Evelyn 14

Sudakov, Benjamin 14

Pudlak, Pavel 13

Seymour, Paul D. 13

Yuster, Raphael 13

Zhu, Xuding 13

Barany, Imre 12

Katona, Gyula O. H. 12

Pintz, Janos 12

Reed, Bruce Alan 12

Saba, Farrokh 12

Shparlinski, Igor E. 12

Wallis, Walter Denis 12

This page was last updated on September 16, 2020.