Trivia
Name Pronounciation
I honestly do not care very much if my name is mispronounced, since I happen to mispronounce foreign names myself. However, if you are curious about the correct pronunciation of my name, here are some hints.According to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it is spelled as ['paolo bo'kiːni].
In English, it would be probably pronounced correctly if it were written "Powlo Bokeenee".
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Degrees of Scientific Separation
Combining the popular "Six degrees of separation" theory with his overwhelming scientific production, some friends of the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős defined the "Erdős number". The procedure to compute this number is the following: to Erdős is assigned the number 0; all the people that have been co-authors of a scientific publication with him receive number 1; the co-authors of people with number 1 receive number 2 and so on. The same procedure has been applied also to Hollywood actors for the "Bacon number".I obviously do not dare to define a "Bocchini number", but I thought that it could be interesting to see how far I could go with this kind of procedure. It turns out that at the second and third level there are already some giants.
Level 1 Ivan Bartoli Stefano Coccia George Deodatis Dan M. Frangopol Cristina Gentilini Francesco Lanza di Scalea Alessandro Marzani Salvatore Salamone Michael D. Shields Francesco Ubertini Erasmo Viola |
Level 2 (only a few) Giuliano Augusti Zdeněk P. Bazant Raimondo Betti Agostino A. Cannarozzi Isaac Elishakoff Bruce R. Ellingwood Lucia Faravelli Hitoshi Furuta Lori Graham-Brady Daniel J. Inman Radu Popescu Jean H. Prevost Masanobu Shinozuka Pol D. Spanos Richard Tomasetti |
Level 3 (only a few) Alessandro Baratta Michel Bruneau Michele Capurso Fabio Casciati Mario Di Paola Giovanni Falsone Roger G. Ghanem Nicola Impollonia Rimas Vaicatis Fumio Yamazaki |
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Any suggestions to improve the list will be very welcome!
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Scientific Genealogy
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