Largest Known Prime discovered by Luke Durant (Full Interview) - Numberphile

Full interview with Luke Durant on his discovery of the 52nd Mersenne Prime (and the largest known prime)... the prime is 2^136,279,841 -1 which has a whopping 41,024,320 decimal digits. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Luke is an independent researcher (and former NVIDIA employee) who put together what was essentially a cloud-based super computer to find the number. Main video: https://youtu.be/Yp4ilFOtoeg Woltman Full Interview: https://youtu.be/9ML2q0q53io See our full playlist of Mersenne Prime videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKsTwVXpLscZdfiiqAkkGCA For people who are inquiring, Luke wears some mechanical support on his nose to help with his breathing. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Numberphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://www.janestreet.com We're also supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile Our thanks also to the Simons Foundation: https://www.simonsfoundation.org NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Videos by Brady Haran Numberphile T-Shirts and Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos across all channels: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/ Sign up for (occasional) emails: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9