On February 18, 2005, Dr. Martin Nowak from Germany, found the new largest known prime number, 225,964,951-1. The prime number has 7,816,230 digits! It took more than 50 days of calculations on Dr. Nowak's 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 computer.
See also www.Mersenne.org and
http://www.augenzentrum.biz/html/dr__martin_r__nowak.html .
Article in AErzte-Zeitung online (Picture courtesy of them)
http://www.arzt-online.de/docs/2005/03/10/044a2001.asp?cat
By the way, Martin plays the piano very well and he has participated in two
piano master classes with Wolfgang Ellenberger.
The latter has given a piano recital in his house arranged by the round table
101 (?) in the ninties.
Andreas Barner.
Foto: VFA
Dr.med. Dr.sc.math. Andreas Barner has studied medicine in Freiburg and
studied mathematics in Zürich/Switzerland.
After 4 years as assistant doctor he worked in the research department of
Ciba-Geigy in Basel/Switzerland
and then became part of the management of Boehringer Ingelheim/Germany.
See the original article in "Deutsches Ärzteblatt" (german):
http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/archiv/artikel.asp?src=suche&id=54967
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