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Hans Riesel

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Hans Ivar Riesel (May 28, 1929 in Stockholm – December 21, 2014) was a Swedish mathematician who discovered the 18th known Mersenne prime in 1957, using the computer BESK: this prime is 23217-1 and consists of 969 digits. [1]

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BESK

BESK (Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator, Swedish for "Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator") was Sweden's first electronic computer, using vacuum tubes instead of relays.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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LIBRIS

LIBRIS (Library Information System) is a Swedish national union catalogue maintained by the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm.

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Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test

In mathematics, the Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test is a primality test for numbers of the form N.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mersenne prime

In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two.

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Riesel number

In mathematics, a Riesel number is an odd natural number k for which the integers of the form k·2n − 1 are composite for all natural numbers n. In other words, when k is a Riesel number, all members of the following set are composite: In 1956, Hans Riesel showed that there are an infinite number of integers k such that k·2n − 1 is not prime for any integer n.

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Riesel Sieve

Riesel Sieve is a distributed computing project, running in part on the BOINC platform.

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Royal Institute of Technology

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH; Kungliga Tekniska högskolan) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden, specialized in Engineering and Technology, it ranks highest in northern mainland Europe in its academic fields.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stockholm University

Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet) is a public university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedish Board for Computing Machinery

The Swedish Board for Computing Machinery (Matematikmaskinnämnden, MMN), was a Swedish government agency which built Sweden's first computers, BARK and BESK.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Riesel

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