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Six Degrees Of Cass Sunstein, Tracey E. George, Paul H. Edelman
Six Degrees Of Cass Sunstein, Tracey E. George, Paul H. Edelman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Degrees of separation is a concept that is intuitive and appealing in popular culture as well as academic discourse: It tells us something about the connectedness of a particular field. It also reveals paths of influence and access. Paul Erdős was the Kevin Bacon of his field - math - coauthoring with a large number of scholars from many institutions and across subfields. Moreover, his work was highly cited and important. Mathematicians talk about their Erdős number (i.e., numbers of degrees of separation) as a sign of their connection to the hub of mathematics: An Erdős number of 2 means …