In April, an eBay auction provided a rare opportunity for math and science enthusiasts: to link their names to one of the most famous mathematicians of the 20 th century, despite being 5 degrees apart.
Hype the title "reduce your Erdös number!
"The auction offers the bidder the opportunity to work with the seller on the research project, and the seller works with someone who works with Paul Elde, Hungarian math genius who died in 1996
Eldos is a quirky legend with no fixed address.
He worked with mathematicians around the world and worked with more than 500 other researchers throughout his life to write papers.