We could inaugurate a new category dedicated to ‘non-linear thinking’ or something like that with this entry. But we won’t.
From the page about the Erdős–Bacon number on Wikipedia:
The Erdős–Bacon number of an individual is the sum of their Erdős number – which is measured by the “collaborative distance” in the authorship of mathematical articles between said individual and the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and the Bacon number of the same individual – which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which said individual is separated from the actor Kevin Bacon-.
Danica McKellar
, Winnie Cooper in
The Wonder Years
, has an Erdős–Bacon number equal to 6.
Via Nasty Nets.
