Mathematician:David John Wheeler

Mathematician

English mathematician best known as the co-discoverer with Jeffrey C.P. Miller of the prime number $180 \times \paren {2^{127} - 1}^2 + 1$ in $1951$.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 9 February 1927
• Died: 13 December 2004

Publications

• 1951: Large Prime Numbers (Nature Vol. 168: p. 838) (with J.C.P. Miller)