David Slowinski Explained

David Slowinski is a mathematician involved in prime numbers. His career highlights have included the discovery of several of the largest known Mersenne primes:^[1]

• 2⁴⁴⁴⁹⁷−1 (M27) (with H. L. Nelson) on April 8, 1979
• 2⁸⁶²⁴³−1 (M28) on September 25, 1982
• 2¹³²⁰⁴⁹−1 (M30) on September 19, 1983
• 2²¹⁶⁰⁹¹−1 (M31) on September 1, 1985
• 2⁷⁵⁶⁸³⁹−1 (M32) (with P. Gage) on February 17, 1992
• 2⁸⁵⁹⁴³³−1 (M33) (with P. Gage) on January 4, 1994
• 2^1257787−1 (M34) (with P. Gage) on September 3, 1996

He has also written several textbooks on the subject.

Slowinski was a software engineer for Cray Research.^[2]

External links

• • David Slowinski on Prime Wiki
• David Slowinski on The Prime Pages

Notes and References

1. http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/prime_press.html Large Prime Number Found by SGI/Cray Supercomputer
2. "Slowinski, a software engineer for Cray Research Inc. in Chippewa Falls, discovered the number at 11:36 a.m. Monday. [i.e. 1983 September 19]" Jim Higgins, "Elusive numeral's number is up" and "Scientist finds big number" in The Milwaukee Sentinel - Sep 24, 1983, p. 1, p. 11 [retrieved 2012-10-23]