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'''George Woltman''' (born November 10, 1957) is the founder of the [[Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search]] (GIMPS), a [[:Category:distributed computing project|distributed computing project]] researching [[Mersenne prime]] numbers using his software [[Prime95]] and [[Prime95|MPrime]]. He graduated from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in 1978 with degrees in Computer Science, and is presently living in Orlando, Florida. His mathematical libraries created for the GIMPS project are the fastest known for [[multiplication]] of large [[integer]]s, and are also used by other [[distributed computing projects]].
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{{Infobox Person
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| Name=George Woltman
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| Nationality=American
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| Top5000=44 George F. Woltman
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'''George Woltman''' is the founder of the [[Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search]] (GIMPS), a [[:Category:distributed computing project|distributed computing project]] researching [[Mersenne prime]] numbers using his software [[Prime95]] and [[Prime95|MPrime]]. He graduated from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in 1978 with degrees in Computer Science, and is presently living in Orlando, Florida. His mathematical libraries created for the GIMPS project are the fastest known for [[multiplication]] of large [[integer]]s, and are also used by other distributed computing projects.
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He has been on the board of [[Mersenne Research, Inc.]] since 2008, and currently serves as President and Treasurer of the organization.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
* [[Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search]]
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*[[Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search]]
* [[Prime95]]
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*[[Prime95]]
* [[Prime95|MPrime]]
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*[[Prime95|MPrime]]
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=44 The Prime Pages Titan Biography]
 
*[http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=44 The Prime Pages Titan Biography]
 
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Woltman Wikipedia article]
 
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Woltman Wikipedia article]
[[Category:Persons|Woltman, George]]
 

Latest revision as of 14:40, 21 August 2019

George Woltman
Personal data :
Real name : George Woltman
Date of birth : 1957-11-10
Nationality : American
Wikipedia entry : George_Woltman
Web data :
MersenneForum : Prime95
The Prime Pages : George F. Woltman
Website : GIMPS Homepage

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 and MPrime. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1978 with degrees in Computer Science, and is presently living in Orlando, Florida. His mathematical libraries created for the GIMPS project are the fastest known for multiplication of large integers, and are also used by other distributed computing projects.

He has been on the board of Mersenne Research, Inc. since 2008, and currently serves as President and Treasurer of the organization.

See also

External links