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Mersenne |
rank prime digits who when comment 1 282589933 - 1 24862048 G16 Dec 2018 Mersenne 51?? 2 277232917 - 1 23249425 G15 Jan 2018 Mersenne 50?? 3 274207281 - 1 22338618 G14 Jan 2016 Mersenne 49?? 4 257885161 - 1 17425170 G13 Feb 2013 Mersenne 48 5 243112609 - 1 12978189 G10 Aug 2008 Mersenne 47 6 242643801 - 1 12837064 G12 Jun 2009 Mersenne 46 7 237156667 - 1 11185272 G11 Sep 2008 Mersenne 45 8 232582657 - 1 9808358 G9 Sep 2006 Mersenne 44 9 230402457 - 1 9152052 G9 Dec 2005 Mersenne 43 10 225964951 - 1 7816230 G8 Feb 2005 Mersenne 42 11 224036583 - 1 7235733 G7 May 2004 Mersenne 41 12 220996011 - 1 6320430 G6 Nov 2003 Mersenne 40 13 213466917 - 1 4053946 G5 Dec 2001 Mersenne 39 14 26972593 - 1 2098960 G4 Jun 1999 Mersenne 38 15 23021377 - 1 909526 G3 Jan 1998 Mersenne 37 16 22976221 - 1 895932 G2 Aug 1997 Mersenne 36 17 21398269 - 1 420921 G1 Nov 1996 Mersenne 35 18 21257787 - 1 378632 SG Sep 1996 Mersenne 34 19 2859433 - 1 258716 SG Jan 1994 Mersenne 33 20 2756839 - 1 227832 SG Feb 1992 Mersenne 32
- BSW89
- P. T. Bateman, J. L. Selfridge and Wagstaff, Jr., S. S., "The new Mersenne conjecture," Amer. Math. Monthly, 96 (1989) 125-128. MR 90c:11009
- CW91
- W. N. Colquitt and Welsh, Jr., L., "A new Mersenne prime," Math. Comp., 56 (1991) 867--870. MR 91h:11006 [The discovery of the 29th Mersenne prime.]
- Gillies64
- D. B. Gillies, "Three new Mersenne primes and a statistical theory," Math. Comp., 18 (1964) 93--95. Corrigendum in Math. Comp. 31 (1977), 1051. MR 28:2990 [The primes are 211213-1, 29941-1 and 29689-1.]
- NN80
- C. Noll and L. Nickel, "The 25th and 26th Mersenne primes," Math. Comp., 35 (1980) 1387-1390. MR 81k:10010
- Peterson92
- I. Peterson, "Striking paydirt in prime-number terrain," Science News, 141:14 (1992) 213. [Discusses the discovery of the Mersenne prime 2756839 -1]
- Robinson54
- R. M. Robinson, "Mersenne and Fermat numbers," Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 5 (1954) 842-846. [Announces the discovery of the 13th through 17th Mersenne primes--the first Mersenne primes found by electronic computer.]
- Slowinski79
- D. Slowinski, "Searching for the 27th Mersenne prime," J. Recreational Math., 11 (1978-9) 258--261.
- Tuckerman71
- B. Tuckerman, "The 24th Mersenne prime," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 68 (1971) 2319-2320. MR 45:166