Daniel Kleitman
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Daniel J. Kleitman is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, and operations research. Kleitman received his PhD from Harvard University in 1958.
Kleitman wrote papers with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1. He was a math advisor and extra in Good Will Hunting.[1] Since Minnie Driver appeared in Good Will Hunting and in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon, Kleitman has a Bacon number of 2 and an Erdős–Bacon number of 3, the lowest currently known.
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