From David Roberts on Google+:
Saharon Shelah, the well-known Israeli set-theorist and logician, has passed 1000 papers!
http://shelah.logic.at/listb.html
The page was updated with a rush of almost twenty papers, taking him over the line. Notably, paper #1000 is not listed. +Richard Elwes and I were wondering what the topic of this (rather artificial) milestone paper would be.
Every now and then, when finding a citation for a paper, you come across one of these giants of prolificacy and their unreasonably long lists of publications. It makes me wonder why I don’t just give up and let them discover all the maths.
Shelah was the first recipient of the Erdős Prize and he is certainly following in the great man’s footsteps – though he’s still got a way to go before he can think about beating Erdős’s approximately (can’t blame him for losing count) 1525 publications.
This is a bit late, but for those interested, Shelah has an Erdős number of 1. I find it mildly ironic that the modern master of transfinite arithmetic collaborated with the one of the modern masters of (most often finite) combinatorial problems.