Mathematician:Aimé Ferrier

Mathematician
French mathematician who discovered in $1951$ that $\dfrac {2^{148} + 1} {17}$ is prime, using a manual desk calculator.

This is now sometimes referred to as Ferrier's prime.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 1896
 * Died: 1975

Theorems and Definitions

 * Ferrier's Prime

Publications

 * 1947: Les Nombres Premiers