Paul Leyland Explained

Paul Leyland is a British astronomer and number theorist who has studied integer factorization and primality testing.

He has contributed to the factorization of RSA-129, RSA-140, and RSA-155, as well as potential factorial primes as large as 400! + 1. He has also studied Cunningham numbers, Cullen numbers, Woodall numbers, etc., and numbers of the form

x ^{y} + y ^{x} , which are now called Leyland numbers. He was involved with the NFSNet project to use distributed computing on the Internet from 2005 to 2008.^[1]

External links

• Paul Leyland's home page
• Tacande Observatory's home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: About NFSNET . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509131653/http://www.nfsnet.org/aboutus.html . 9 May 2008 . 9 August 2011 .