User blog comment:Sbiis Saibian/The Great Googology Census of 2016/@comment-119611-20160205094802

I happen to have taken several courses taught by Lev Beklemishev (of Beklemishev's worms fame), so I talked with him a few times about various things, and I'm pretty sure he does not consider himself a googologist. I won't be surprised if he had never heard of googology (at least, by this name). I suspect his work is still enough to count him as a contributor (though I couldn't find any copies of his original article online, only some later versions).

I wonder whether Kharms would count as a (honorary?) contributor, for "Lifting of a Number". It is the only work of his that is remotely related to googology. Also, getting a date for it would be tricky (the traditional date is when he wrote it, not when it was finally published, which was, IIRC, decades later).

As for me, I know that I'm definitely not a googologist, and under the existing rules, I'm probably not a contributor either (though I might yet count as one in the future if I ever release my calculations of intermediate Beklemishev's worm numbers online).