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David Slowinski

Known for helping discover one of the largest Mersenne primes of its time, this American mathematician and software engineer worked at the crossroads of computing and number theory.

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The 32nd Mersenne Prime

The 32nd Mersenne Prime

by David Slowinski

About the author

David Slowinski is an American mathematician and software engineer best known for research on Mersenne primes. Available source material indicates that he worked as a software engineer for Cray Research and is associated with the discovery of the 32nd Mersenne prime.

His name appears in connection with The 32nd Mersenne Prime, reflecting the area of mathematics he is most closely linked to: large prime-number searches that depend on both theory and high-performance computing. Publicly available biographical information found during this search is quite limited, so many personal and career details are not widely documented.