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George Woltman

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Founder of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime search

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1957 · age 68
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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.

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