N is a Number
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N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős is a 1993
1993 in film
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...

 documentary directed by George Paul Csicsery about the life of mathematician Paul Erdős
Paul Erdos
Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...

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Erdős himself appears in the film. As of 2010, using the official cast
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 list in the credits, it gives Erdős a Bacon number (and thus Erdős-Bacon number
Erdos-Bacon number
A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that person and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in...

) of 3.

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