stackyFACTSWhen you co-author so many brilliant papers that you essentially become a plague of academic productivity, people have to invent a system just to track you. Mathematicians created the 'Erdős number' purely to measure how few degrees of separation they were from collaborating with the eccentric genius himself.
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