Proust, in his first book, wrote about, wrote about…
Some discussion in the office has just revealed that, if being an extra in a movie counts for the Bacon number, and if non-math (but still peer-reviewed) papers count for the Erdös number, one of my office-mates has an Erdös-Bacon number of 9.
I just realized last night that as of about two weeks ago I’ve got a Bacon number of 3. Time to start typing that advanced math paper…