About this episode

The episode discusses the discovery of the largest known prime number with key contributors.

There’s a new largest known prime number and we speak to all the key players, including the discoverer Luke Durant. Also featured in the podcast are George Woltman from GIMPS, James Grime, and Matt Parker. Extended interviews (as videos) can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWIWS5Jd3k5QHdc0kxwfnZMg Matt Parker’s epic video on Stand-up Maths is here: https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI Numberphile’s main video on the discovery is here: https://youtu.be/Yp4ilFOtoeg The GIMPS press release is here: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841 GIMPS: https://www.mersenne.org More Numberphile videos on Mersenne Primes from over the year: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKsTwVXpLscZdfiiqAkkGCA Numberphile is supported by Jane Street - https://www.numberphile.com/jane-street You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile Here are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons

People in this episode

Host: Brady Haran

Guest: Luke Durant

Topics covered

• prime numbers
• mathematics
• GIMPS
• interviews
• number theory

Sponsors

Jane Street

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GIMPS, Numberphile

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