List of people by Erdős number

Paul Erdős (1913–1996) was a Hungarian mathematician.

He considered mathematics to be a social activity and often collaborated on his papers, having 511 joint authors, many of whom also have their own collaborators.

There are more than 12,500[1] people with an Erdős number of two.

This is a partial list of authors with an Erdős number of three or less, including only those who have existing Wikipedia articles.

For more complete listings of Erdős numbers, see the databases maintained by the Erdős Number Project or the collaboration distance calculators maintained by the American Mathematical Society and by zbMATH.