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Jo Røislien #48

Open january1may opened 6 years ago

january1may commented 6 years ago

Jo Røislien is a Norwegian mathematician and science communicator.
Or, at least, so says his IMDB biography.

  Erdős: 4

(Thanks to his Norwegian Wikipedia article.)

  Bacon: 3

As suggested by Oracle of Bacon:

(The Wikipedia article mentioned above proposes a different path, through a TV show appearance with Ylvis; it's a 3 either way.)

  Sabbath: 6

This was the trickiest part - I had to check many sources in Norwegian, and even one in Russian!
I think I've got it, though...

Last two connections are courtesy of BandToBand.com, and cross-checked elsewhere,
I could have finished this with Joshua Redman - B.B. King - Ozzy Osbourne, but I couldn't resist a chance to improve the Sabbath number of Jeff Baxter.

  Fun fact: I only found out about his existence because his Wikipedia entry showed up in a search for Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath numbers - specifically, it linked to one of the early EBS articles (apparently as a source for the existence of the Erdős-Bacon number).
...To be precise, the link went to a 2016 blog post by Len Fisher that tried to establish his own EBS number. I'm actually not sure why we still don't have Len Fisher.