Mathematician:David Slowinski
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Mathematician
American mathematician who has discovered of several of the largest known Mersenne primes.
He has also written several textbooks on the subject.
Mersenne primes discovered
| \(\text {(27)}: \quad\) | \(\displaystyle M_{44 \, 497}\) | \(:\) | \(\displaystyle 2^{44 \, 497} − 1\) | 8 Apr 1979 | with Harry Lewis Nelson | ||||||||
| \(\text {(28)}: \quad\) | \(\displaystyle M_{86 \, 243}\) | \(:\) | \(\displaystyle 2^{86 \, 243} − 1\) | 25 Sept 1982 | |||||||||
| \(\text {(30)}: \quad\) | \(\displaystyle M_{132 \, 049}\) | \(:\) | \(\displaystyle 2^{132 \, 049} − 1\) | 19 Sept 1983 | |||||||||
| \(\text {(31)}: \quad\) | \(\displaystyle M_{216 \, 091}\) | \(:\) | \(\displaystyle 2^{216 \, 091} − 1\) | 1 Sept 1985 | |||||||||
| \(\text {(32)}: \quad\) | \(\displaystyle M_{756 \, 839}\) | \(:\) | \(\displaystyle 2^{756 \, 839} − 1\) | 19 Feb 1992 | with Paul Gage | ||||||||
| \(\text {(33)}: \quad\) | \(\displaystyle M_{859 \, 433}\) | \(:\) | \(\displaystyle 2^{859 \, 433} − 1\) | 4 Jan 1994 | with Paul Gage | ||||||||
| \(\text {(34)}: \quad\) | \(\displaystyle M_{1 \, 257 \, 787}\) | \(:\) | \(\displaystyle 2^{1 \, 257 \, 787} − 1\) | 3 Sept 1996 | with Paul Gage |
Publications
- 1978 -- 1979: Searching for the $27$th Mersenne Prime (Journal of Recreational Mathematics Vol. 11, no. 4: pp. 258 – 261) (with H. Nelson)
Sources
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {B}.2$: More about Numbers: Irrationals, Perfect Numbers and Mersenne Primes: Footnote $5$
