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Mersenne, Marin (1588–1648) French monk, philosopher, and mathematician who provided a valuable channel of communication between such contemporaries as Descartes, Fermat, Galileo, and Pascal: ‘To inform Mersenne of a discovery is to publish it throughout the whole of Europe.' In an attempt to find a formula for prime numbers, he considered the numbers 2p−1, where p is prime. Not all such numbers are prime: 211−1 is not. Those that are prime are called Mersenne primes.
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