Some Collaboration Distances

I compiled these with the help of a collaboration distance calculator provided by the American Mathematical Society.

Erdös Number

My Erdös number is at most 4:
  1. Michael M. Stark with Tom Lyche,
    Stark, Michael M.; Cohen, E.; Lyche, Tom; and Riesenfeld, Richard F. "Computing Exact Shadow Irradiance using Splines" ACM SIGGRAPH 99
  2. Tom Lyche with Nira Dyn
    Dyn, N. and Lyche, T.: "A Hermite subdivision scheme for the evaluation of the Powell-Sabin 12-split element" Aproximation Theory IX, Vol. 2 (1998)
  3. Nira Dyn with George G. Lorentz
    Dyn, N.; Lorentz, G. G.; and Riemenschneider, S. D.: "Continuity of the Birkhoff interpolation" SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis 19 (1982), no. 3
  4. George G. Lorentz with Paul Erdös
    Erdös, P.; Lorentz, G. G.: "On the probability that n and g(n) are relatively prime" Acta Arithmetica 5 (1959)
I know of another independent path of the same length, to a paper entitled "On Tchebycheff Quadrature" by Erdös and Sharma through a collaboration with Frank Stenger. If I had ever managed to publish with Frank myself (he was on my PhD committee) My Erdös number would be 3.

Einstein Number

My Einstein number is at most 5:
  1. Michael M. Stark with Richard F. Riesenfeld
    Stark, Michael M. and Riesenfeld, Richard F.: "Exact Radiosity Reconstruction and Shadow Computation Using Vertex Tracing" Rendering Techniques 2000: 11th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (2000)
  2. Richard F. Riesenfeld with Frank Stenger
    Stenger, F; Cohen, E.; and Riesenfeld, R. F; "Radial function methods of approximation based on using harmonic Green's functions" Communications in Applied Analysis 6 (2002), no. 1
  3. Frank Stenger with Ambikeshwar Sharma
    Sikshit, H. P.; Sharma, A; Singh, V.; and Stenger, F.: "Rivlin's theorem on Walsh equiconvergence" Journal of Approximation Theory 52 (1988), no. 3
  4. Ambikeshwar Sharma with Ernst Gabor Straus
    Motzkin, T. S.; Sharma, A.; and Straus, E. G.: "Averaging interpoation" Spline Functions and Approximation Theory International Series of Numerical Mathematics, Vol 21, 1973
  5. Ernst Gabor Straus with Albert Einstein:
    Einstein, A. and Straus, E.: "The influence of the expansion of space on the gravitation fields surrounding the individual stars." Reviews of Modern Physics 17, (1945)

Others

My Knuth number is at most 5, but I believe it to be lower.
Mike Stark