I assume that most of my readers have low Erdos numbers and will therefore wish to know what they are worth. My original bid of $1.35 turned out to be too low. The number five went for $1,031 dollars.
As you can see from the screen shot bellow even eBay, market-maker to the world, ponders “How did this happen?”.
Update:: The virtue of erdos numbers has found a defender! A rightous Don Quixote . A brave man willing to defend the foundations of the ivory tower from such flippant conceptual undermining.
You might want to read the entry in my blog about the winner.
More is forthcoming in a couple of days, when we see how he responds to my simple explanation and offer to let him apologize to save face….