David Slowinski

David Slowinski is a mathematician involved in prime numbers. His career highlights have included the discovery of seven 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 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.