David Slowinski
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David Slowinski is a mathematician
involved in prime number
s. His career highlights have included the discovery of several of the largest known Mersenne prime
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He has also written several textbooks on the subject.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
involved in prime number
Prime number
A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example 5 is prime, as only 1 and 5 divide it, whereas 6 is composite, since it has the divisors 2...
s. His career highlights have included the discovery of several of the largest known Mersenne prime
Mersenne prime
In mathematics, a Mersenne number, named after Marin Mersenne , is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two: M_p=2^p-1.\,...
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- 244497−1 (M27) on April 8 1979
- 286243−1 (M28) on September 25 1982
- 2132049−1 (M30) on September 20 1983
- 2216091−1 (M31) on September 6 1985
- 2756839−1 (M32) on February 19 1992
- 2859433−1 (M33) on January 10 1994
- 21257787−1 (M34) in September 3 1996
He has also written several textbooks on the subject.