Daniel Kleitman

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Daniel Kleitman
Daniel Kleitman

Daniel J. Kleitman is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, Genomics, and operations research. Kleitman received his PhD from Harvard University in 1958.[1]

Kleitman wrote papers with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1. He was a math advisor and extra in Good Will Hunting.[2] Since Minnie Driver appeared in Good Will Hunting and in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon, Kleitman has a Bacon number of 2 and an Erdős–Bacon number of 3, the lowest currently known.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Daniel Kleitman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Daniel J. Kleitman, "My Career in the Movies,", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 45, 502 (April 1998)

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