Mathematician:Hans Ivar Riesel
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Mathematician
Swedish mathematician who found the $18$th Mersenne prime $2^{3217} - 1$ in $1957$.
He held the record for the highest known prime from $1957$ to $1961$, when Alexander Hurwitz found the next two.
Nationality
Swedish
History
- Born: May 28, 1929, Stockholm, Sweden
- Died: December 21, 2014
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for Hans Ivar Riesel can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Hans Ivar Riesel can be found here.
Publications
- 1979: Partitions in squares (BIT Vol. 19, no. 3: pp. 297 – 301) (with J. Bohman and C.E. Fröberg)
- 1994: Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization