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David Slowinski
Best known for helping discover several record-setting Mersenne primes, this mathematician and computer scientist turned deep computational work into headline-making number theory. His writing centers on the hunt for enormous prime numbers and the methods used to find them.
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The 32nd Mersenne Prime Predicted by Mersenne
by David Slowinski
About the author
David Slowinski is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his work on Mersenne primes, a special class of prime numbers that have fascinated researchers for centuries. Search results consistently identify him with several discoveries of very large known primes and with long-running computational work in this area.
He is especially associated with the search for record-setting primes during the late 20th century, including collaborations that pushed the limits of available computing power. A short biographical note from PrimePages describes him as having worked at Cray Research, which fits with his reputation for combining mathematics with high-performance computing.
As an author, he is linked with writing about these discoveries rather than with a large general-audience bibliography. I could confirm reliable biographical information about his mathematical career, but I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from the page images available, so no profile image is included.