Daniel J. Kleitman is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, Genomics, and operations research.
Kleitman received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1958 under Julian Schwinger and Roy Glauber.
Kleitman wrote papers with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1. He was a math advisor and extra in Good Will Hunting.
Since Minnie Driver appeared in Good Will Hunting and i...
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Daniel J. Kleitman is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, Genomics, and operations research.
Kleitman received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1958 under Julian Schwinger and Roy Glauber.
Kleitman wrote papers with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1. He was a math advisor and extra in Good Will Hunting.
Since Minnie Driver appeared in Good Will Hunting and in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon, Kleitman has a Bacon number of 2 and an Erdős–Bacon number of 3, the lowest currently known. It is likely to remain so: to get an Erdős-Bacon number of 2, either a mathematician with an Erdős number of 1 would have to appear in a movie with Kevin Bacon himself, or stock footage of the late Paul Erdős (whose Erdős number is 0) would have to appear in a movie with an actor with a Bacon number of 1 (or Bacon himself), or a paper would have to be published which has been coauthored by Bacon and someone with an Erdős...
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