# George Woltman

> George Woltman is the founder of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed computing project researching Mersenne prime numbers using his software Prime95. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a BS and a MS in computer science. He lives in North Carolina.

*Founder of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime search*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1957-11-10
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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