Six degrees of Rod Steiger

Saturday 3 January 2004 — This is nearly 21 years old. Be careful.

Party conversation tonight turned from:

a particular child’s personal certainty
to mathematical certainty
to number theory
to Paul Erdös
to Erdös numbers
to six degrees of Kevin Bacon
to the fact that Burgess Meredith is the most connected actor (I was wrong: Rod Steiger is the most connected)
to how campy the old Batman TV series was.

BTW: Malcolm Gladwell wrote a great article about connections among people for the New Yorker a few years back: Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg.

Comments

Barry 4:17 PM on 7 Jan 2004

You might want to check out 'The Man Who Loved Only Numbers'.

Six degrees of Rod Steiger