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David Slowinski

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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
  • 21257787−1 (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]

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