David Slowinski is a mathematician involved in prime numbers. His career highlights have included the discovery of several of the largest 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. Leonhard Euler is considered by many people to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is mathematics. ... In mathematics, a prime number (or a prime) is a natural number that has exactly two (distinct) natural number divisors, which are 1 and the prime number itself. ... In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a prime power of two. ...
References
Large Prime Number Found by SGI/Cray Supercomputer
DavidSlowinski showing his usual enthusiasm for such things, happily obliged by providing the analyst with the program.
DavidSlowinski proceeded to use Cray's latest and greatest machine to verify the find; the brand new Cray C90 super computer, housed at Chippewa Falls in Cray's Wisconsin facility.
Slowinski must have practically dedicated the C90 to the task as later on that evening, the analyst received an email to the effect that the number had indeed been verified on the C90.
Feeds |
Contact