David Slowinski

David Slowinski is a mathematician involved in prime numbers. His career highlights have included the discovery of several of the largest known Mersenne primes: * 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 * 2^1257787−1 (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. Provided by Wikipedia