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]
References
- ^ Large Prime Number Found by SGI/Cray Supercomputer
- ^ "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]
External links
- Works by David Slowinski at Project Gutenberg
- David Slowinski on MersenneWiki
- David Slowinski on The Prime Pages