Carl Sagan was an astronomer, cosmologist, author, and science popularizer. He is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, his popular science books including Pale Blue Dot, and of course his award-winning TV series Cosmos.
Sagan and Hawking were both sampled in several songs created by John
Boswell for his Symphony of Science project. ↩
Boswell's Sabbath number of three is not, strictly speaking, correct. Samples count as a one-way collaboration: Sagan and Hawking are linked to Boswell through "A Glorious Dawn" but it's not quite right to say that Boswell is linked to Hawking. The Erdős Bacon Sabbath Project would be grateful for suggestions on how to correct Boswell's Sabbath path. ↩
"Keep Talking" features samples of Hawking's voice taken from a BT television advert. ↩
Carl Sagan was an astronomer, cosmologist, author, and science popularizer. He is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, his popular science books including Pale Blue Dot, and of course his award-winning TV series Cosmos.
Erdős 4
James M. Cordes A vision for petabyte data management and analysis services for the Arecibo telescope
Alan J. Demers Worst-case performance bounds for simple one-dimensional packing algorithms
Ronald Graham On sums of Fibonnaci numbers
Paul Erdős
Bacon 2
Carl Sagan The Earth Day Special
Candice Bergen Starting Over
Kevin Bacon
Sabbath 4
Carl Sagan A Glorious Dawn 1
John Boswell A Glorious Dawn 2
Stephen Hawking "Keep Talking" — Pink Floyd 3
David Gilmour "Smoke on the Water" — Rock Aid Armenia
Tony Iommi
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