David Slowinski

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David Slowinski is a mathematician involved in prime numbers. His career highlights have included the discovery of several of the largest known Mersenne primes: 244497−1 in 1979, 286243−1 in 1982, 2132049−1 in 1983, 2216091−1 in 1985, 2756839−1 in 1992, 2859433−1 in 1994, and 21257787−1 in 19961. He has also written several textbooks on the subject.

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  1. Large Prime Number Found by SGI/Cray Supercomputer

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