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In January 1962, I arrived in Adelaide, South Australia to begin research for an MSc in mathematics at the University of AdelaideUniversity of Adelaide. My research supervisor would be the distinguished Hungarian Australian mathematician George SzekeresBudapest mathematicians:George Szekeres, Esther Klein, Pál Turán, Tibor Gallai, Paul Erdős , and my topic of research was going to be related to Einstein’s theory ofGeneral relativity general relativityEinstein’s theory of general relativity. While doing research on a problem involving a ‘black holeBlack hole’, I learned that Mr. Szekeres was also an early collaborator of the itinerant and prolific Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who had over 450 co-authors. Each one of them has been assigned an Erdős numberErdős number of 1. Since George and I later published a paper together in the Canadian Journal of PhysicsCanadian journal of physics, I have been assigned an Erdős numberErdős number of 2. My colleagues in climate science are astonished by this strange recognition!

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George, Paul, and My Erdős Number of 2

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  • Lawrence Mysak

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In January 1962, I arrived in Adelaide, South Australia to begin research for an MSc in mathematics at the University of AdelaideUniversity of Adelaide. My research supervisor would be the distinguished Hungarian Australian mathematician George SzekeresBudapest mathematicians:George Szekeres, Esther Klein, Pál Turán, Tibor Gallai, Paul Erdős , and my topic of research was going to be related to Einstein’s theory ofGeneral relativity general relativityEinstein’s theory of general relativity. While doing research on a problem involving a ‘black holeBlack hole’, I learned that Mr. Szekeres was also an early collaborator of the itinerant and prolific Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who had over 450 co-authors. Each one of them has been assigned an Erdős numberErdős number of 1. Since George and I later published a paper together in the Canadian Journal of PhysicsCanadian journal of physics, I have been assigned an Erdős numberErdős number of 2. My colleagues in climate science are astonished by this strange recognition!