Douglas Adams #16

Douglas Adams was an English writer, humourist, and dramatist. He is best known as the author of the radio comedy and book series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Adams was an enviromental activist who campaigned on behalf of endangered species; his Last Chance to See radio series and book with naturalist Mark Carwardine gives him an Erdős number of ten. His Sabbath number stems from his friendship with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour: on Adams' 42nd birthday, he was invited to play at one of Pink Floyd's concerts.

Erdős 10

• Douglas Adams

  Last Chance to See ¹

• Mark Carwardine

  North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) sighting South of Baja California

• Diane Gendron

  An integrated approch to the foraging ecology of marine birds and mammals

• Jorge Urbán

  Genetic identification of a small and highly isolated population of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Sea of Cortez, México

• Per J. Palsbøll

  Discening between recurrent gene flow and recent divergence under a finite-site mutation model applied to North Atlantic and Mediterranean sea fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) populations

• Rasmus Nielsen

  Distinguishing Migration From Isolation: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach

• John Wakeley

  The two-locus ancestral graph in a subdivided population: convergence as the number of demes grows in the island model

• Sabin Lessard

  A criterion for stability-instability at fixation states involving an eigenvalue one with applications in population genetics

• Samuel Karlin

  On certain differential-integral equations

• G. Szegö

  On a problem of I. Schur

• Paul Erdős

Bacon 2

• Douglas Adams

  Monty Python’s Flying Circus S4E5

• John Cleese

  The Big Picture

• Kevin Bacon

Sabbath 2

• Douglas Adams

  "Brain Damage" live at Earls Court — Pink Floyd

• David Gilmour

  "Smoke on the Water" — Rock Aid Armenia

• Tony Iommi

Credits

Proposal: Andrew

Photo: michael hughes (Creative Commons)