Editing Erdős number (section)

===Finance and economics===
There are at least two winners of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize in Economics]] with an Erdős number of 2: [[Harry M. Markowitz]] (1990) and [[Leonid Kantorovich]] (1975). Other financial mathematicians with Erdős number of 2 include [[David Donoho]], [[Marc Yor]], [[Henry McKean]], [[Daniel Stroock]], and [[Joseph Keller]].

Nobel Prize laureates in Economics with an Erdős number of 3 include [[Kenneth J. Arrow]] (1972), [[Milton Friedman]] (1976), [[Herbert A. Simon]] (1978), [[Gerard Debreu]] (1983), [[John Forbes Nash, Jr.]] (1994), [[James Mirrlees]] (1996), [[Daniel McFadden]] (2000), [[Daniel Kahneman]] (2002), [[Robert J. Aumann]] (2005), [[Leonid Hurwicz]] (2007), [[Roger Myerson]] (2007), [[Alvin E. Roth]] (2012), and [[Lloyd S. Shapley]] (2012) and [[Jean Tirole]] (2014).<ref>Grossman, J. (2015): "The Erdős Number Project." http://wwwp.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/</ref>

Some investment firms have been founded by mathematicians with low Erdős numbers, among them [[James Ax|James B. Ax]] of [[Renaissance Technologies#Medallion Fund|Axcom Technologies]], and [[James H. Simons]] of [[Renaissance Technologies]], both with an Erdős number of 3.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-11/six-degrees-of-quant-kevin-bacon-and-the-erdos-number-mystery|title=Six Degrees of Quant: Kevin Bacon and the Erdős Number Mystery|last=Kishan|first=Saijel|date=2016-11-11|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2016-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.financial-math.org/blog/2016/11/erdos-numbers-in-finance/|title=Erdős Numbers: A True "Prince and the Pauper" story|last=Bailey|first=David H.|date=2016-11-06|newspaper=The Mathematical Investor|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-12}}</ref>