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<p>36.2.80.129: Created page with &quot;According to Wikipedia, Paul Erdős (26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician who published more papers than any other mathematician in history, work...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>According to Wikipedia, Paul Erdős (26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician who published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. In the strip, we see the characters frantically writing a mathematics paper and getting everyone to put their name on it as co-author, before also getting the resurrected Paul Erdős to put his name on the paper. The ALT text mentions Kevin Bacon, a reference to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon meme, so this strip plays on the idea that all mathematicians are six degrees away from Erdős. The characters are securing high &quot;Erdős numbers&quot; for themselves by co-authoring a paper with him.</div>

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