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He was a math advisor and extra for the film ''[[Good Will Hunting]].''<ref>Daniel J. Kleitman, [https://www.ams.org/notices/199804/review-saul.pdf "My Career in the Movies,"], ''[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society]]'', '''45''', 502 (April 1998)</ref> Since [[Minnie Driver]], who appeared in ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'', also appeared in ''[[Sleepers (film)|Sleepers]]'' with [[Kevin Bacon]], Kleitman has a [[Bacon number]] of 2. Adding the two numbers results in an [[Erdős–Bacon number]] of 3, which is a tie with [[Bruce Reznick]] for the lowest number anyone has.<ref name="erdos-bacon">{{cite web | last = Grossman | first = Jerry | url = https://oakland.edu/enp/related/ | title = Items of Interest Related to Erdös Numbers | website = The Erdös Number Project | publisher = [[Oakland University]] | access-date = 24 August 2018}}</ref>
In 2024 Kleitman was elected as a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2024-nas-election.html|date=April 30, 2024|title=National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members}}</ref>
==Personal life==
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