BREAKING NEWS: The Largest Known Prime Number

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: Matt Parker’s epic video on Stand-up Maths is here: Numberphile’s main video on the discovery is here: The GIMPS press release is here: GIMPS: More Numberphile videos on Mersenne Primes from over the year: Numberphile is supported by Jane Street - You can support Numberphile on Patreon - Here are our Patrons -

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BREAKING NEWS: The Largest Known Prime Number is an episode from The Numberphile Podcast by Brady Haran.

This episode is 00:39:37 long.

This episode was published on Oct 24, 2024.

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