I’m a high school senior. I co-authored a paper with John Conway. It’s on pretty unimportant stuff, and hardly serious mathematics, but it’s still interesting. And I get an Erdos number of 2!
Yeah just three weeks ago. The proofs are all complete and the guy in charge of writing it up should almost be finished. It’ll probably take some time to get published though.
I met Conway at a maths summer camp in Germany, and he told us students about the Prague clock problem. A friend, a grad student volunteering there, and I worked on the problem for a few days and pretty much solved it, and Conway said we should write a paper together.
I was incredibly lucky, of course. Recreational mathematics isn’t how one expects to get an Erdos number.
It was a wonderful experience, and John Conway is an amazing man. I’ve never seen anyone that could delight so much in almost trivial mathematics. Kinda explains how he became great.
As this is the first bragging thread, even if this happened over a month ago, it should be admissible. (Heck, even if it weren’t the first bragging thread.)
I’m a high school senior. I co-authored a paper with John Conway. It’s on pretty unimportant stuff, and hardly serious mathematics, but it’s still interesting. And I get an Erdos number of 2!
Yeah just three weeks ago. The proofs are all complete and the guy in charge of writing it up should almost be finished. It’ll probably take some time to get published though. I met Conway at a maths summer camp in Germany, and he told us students about the Prague clock problem. A friend, a grad student volunteering there, and I worked on the problem for a few days and pretty much solved it, and Conway said we should write a paper together. I was incredibly lucky, of course. Recreational mathematics isn’t how one expects to get an Erdos number. It was a wonderful experience, and John Conway is an amazing man. I’ve never seen anyone that could delight so much in almost trivial mathematics. Kinda explains how he became great.
It must be this you are referring to. Congratulations!
Congratulations! Will it be published behind a paywall? Any chance that we will get to read it?
Did you really co-author that paper just this last month?
Also, an Erdos number of 2? that’s… that’s just not fair, and I am incredibly jealous.
As this is the first bragging thread, even if this happened over a month ago, it should be admissible. (Heck, even if it weren’t the first bragging thread.)
Point conceded. but no doubling up by mentioning this in future bragging threads.
That’s amazing! Could you tell us some more about how this came about?