Lots of people (including yours truly) love to brag about their Erdos numbers. My colleague Steve Flammia wrote to the people at the
Erdos number project asking them if they had computed the Erdos numbers for infamous people. Steve asked specifically about Ahmed Chalabi, who has a PhD in mathematics.
Turns out Chalabi has an Erdos number of at most six!
Which means my Chalabi number is at most eight…
At least you know that you have an infinite Unibomber number. Or at least I hope you do:
Name: Theodore John Kaczynski
Research Area: murder
Erdos Number: infinite
More importantly, Kaczynski never co-authored with anyone else, so everyone has an infinite Unabomber number. His PhD adviser, however, Alan Shields, was an Erdos coauthor.