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Name
  
David Slowinski


Role
  
Mathematician

David Slowinski The Prime Pages David Slowinski

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 (M27) on April 8, 1979
  • 286243−1 (M28) on September 25, 1982
  • 2132049−1 (M30) on September 19, 1983
  • 2216091−1 (M31) on September 1, 1985
  • 2756839−1 (M32) on February 17, 1992
  • 2859433−1 (M33) on January 4, 1994
  • 21257787−1 (M34) on September 3, 1996

    • He has also written several textbooks on the subject.

    Slowinski was a software engineer for Cray Research.

    References

    David Slowinski Wikipedia
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