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MathSciNet Enhancements, Largest Known Prime Number Discovered

:: AMS has made some enhancements to MathSciNet, including multilingual interfaces.

:: Speaking of numbers, in case you missed it, the largest known prime number was recently discovered by a 26-year old chemical engineering student. The number is 220,996,011-1, and is 6,320,430 digits long. It is a "Mersenne prime", which takes the form, 2P-1

Posted by Randy Reichardt on December 12, 2003 3:39 PM | | Posted to Mathematics

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