Steven Boone

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Dr. Steven Boone is a professor at the University of Central Missouri in the department of Chemistry and Physics. He is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and is currently serving as interim Dean.

Boone completed his undergraduate studies in chemistry at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly-SLO) in 1984 and completed his graduate work at University of Colorado at Boulder in 1990, under the direction of Dr. Cortlandt G. Pierpont. [1]

Boone and Dr. Curtis Cooper found the 43rd known Mersenne prime using a 700 PC cluster on December 15, 2005. The prime, 2^30402457 - 1, is 9,152,052 digits long and is the ninth Mersenne prime for the GIMPS project. [2]

Lightning strikes twice: Boone and Dr. Curtis Cooper found the 44th known Mersenne prime, 2^32582657 − 1, which has 9,808,358 digits (or M32582657 for short). This prime was discovered on September 4, 2006 using a PC cluster of over 850 machines. This is the tenth Mersenne prime for the GIMPS project. [3]

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