Brian May

Gaining legendary status as the lead guitarist for popular rock band Queen, Brian May is also a qualified astrophycisist, and as such was one of the four first known people to have a recognised Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number.

His verified Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number is 9. His Sabbath number, 1, is the (unique) lowest of those with a verified EBS number, and the lowest component number of all verified EBS numbers.

Erdő s Number: 5

 * (5) Brian May
 * Bang! The Complete History of the Universe 1


 * (4) Chris Lintott
 * Galaxy Zoo 1: data release of morphological classifications for nearly 900 000 galaxies


 * (3) Robert C. Nichol
 * The galaxy luminosity function and luminosity density at redshift z=0.1


 * (2) Max Tegmark
 * An elementary proof that the biharmonic Green function of an eccentric ellipse changes sign


 * (1) Harold S. Shapiro
 * Large and small subspaces of Hilbert space


 * (0) Paul Erdős

Bacon Number: 3

 * (3) Brian May
 * The Adventures of Pinocchio


 * (2) Martin Landau
 * Ed Wood


 * (1) Bill Murray
 * Wild Things


 * (0) Kevin Bacon

Sabbath Number: 1

 * (1) Brian May
 * “When Death Calls”

(0) Black Sabbath