Bounding my Erdös number

(Adapted from Doug Arnold's page on the matter) Paul Erdös (1913-1996) was one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time. He authored or coauthored around 1500 articles and books. The Erdös number measures the distance of a given mathematician from Erdös on a graph whose edges denote the relationship of coauthorship (see the Erdös Number Project Home Page for details). Thus, to establish a bound of 3 for mine, it suffices to supply the following citations. I am not sure this bound is sharp, a lower bound is more difficult to demonstrate, particularly since the Erdös number is time-dependent (though monotonically non-increasing).

Erdös, Paul; Joo, Istvan; Komornik, Vilmos. On the sequence of numbers of the form $\epsilon\sb 0+\epsilon\sb 1q+\cdots+\epsilon\sb nq\sp n, \epsilon\sb i\in\{0,1\}$. Acta Arith. 83 (1998), no. 3, 201--210.

Baiocchi, Claudio; Komornik, Vilmos; Loreti, Paola. Theoremes du type Ingham et application a la theorie du controle (French) [Ingham-type theorems and application to control theory] C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris S^Īr. I Math. 326 (1998), no. 4, 453--458.

Baiocchi, C., Brezzi, F., and Franca, L.P., Virtual bubbles and the Galerkin-least-squares method, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 105 (1993) 125-141.

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