My Erdös number is 3, thanks to Gordon B. Agnew, whose number is 2.
If you have co-authored a paper with Paul Erdös, your number is 1; if you have co-authored with someone who has co-authored a paper with Paul Erdös, your number is 2; you get the idea.
For more information, check out the Erdos Project page.
Here is how I get linked:
- J. Lian, L. Chen, K. Naik, M T. Özsu, and G. B. Agnew, "BBS: An Energy-efficient Localized Routing Scheme for Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2(1): 23--54.
- G. B. Agnew, R. C. Mullin, and S. A. Vanstone, "Fast exponentiation in GF(2n)", In Advances in cryptology---EUROCRYPT '88, pages 251-255, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci., 330, Springer, Berlin, 1988.
- P. Erdös, R. C. Mullin, V. T. Sos, and D. R. Stinson, "Finite linear spaces and projective planes", Discrete Math. 47(1): 49-62, 1983.