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 (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

2^1257787−1 (M34) on September 3, 1996

He has also written several textbooks on the subject.

Slowinski was a software engineer for Cray Research.

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