Stephen Hawking

Arguably the greatest scientist of the modern era, Professor Stephen Hawking has had an impact on the worlds of physics and astronomy which has lent him recognition in popular culture, 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 8, the lowest verified Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number, along with inventor Ray Kurzweill. His Bacon number, 2, is the (tied) lowest of those with a verified EBS number. Additionally, his highest component number, 4 ( his Erdős number), is the (tied) lowest of any verified EBS number .

Erdő s Number: 4

 * (4) Stephen Hawking
 * Origin of time asymmetry


 * (3) Raymond Laflamme
 * Compiling gate networks on an Ising quantum computer


 * (2) Emanuel Knill
 * Minimal residual method stronger than polynomial preconditioning


 * (1) Vance Faber
 * Sets of natural numbers of positive density and cylindric set algebras of dimension 2


 * (0) Paul Erdős

Bacon Number: 2

 * (2) Stephen Hawking
 * Masters of Science Fiction


 * (1) Sean Astin
 * White Water Summer


 * (0) Kevin Bacon

Sabbath Number: 2

 * (2) Stephen Hawking
 * “Keep Talking” — Pink Floyd [sample]


 * (1) David Gilmour
 * “Smoke on the Water” — Rock Aid Armenia


 * (0) Tony Iommi