The Largest Known Prime Number - Numberphile Podcast

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:    • Mersenne Prime #52 on Numberphile  

Matt Parker’s epic video on Stand-up Maths is here:    • New largest prime number found! See a...  

Numberphile’s main video on the discovery is here:    • The Man Who Found the World's Biggest...  

The GIMPS press release is here: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?pres...

GIMPS: https://www.mersenne.org

More Numberphile videos on Mersenne Primes from over the year:    • Mersenne Primes on Numberphile  

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