François Proth
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French mathematician
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François Proth's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Lorraine
Why Is François Proth Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, François Proth was a French self-taught mathematician farmer who lived in Vaux-devant-Damloup near Verdun, France. He stated four primality-related theorems. The most famous of these, Proth's theorem, can be used to test whether a Proth number is prime. The numbers passing this test are called Proth primes; they continue to be of importance in the computational search for large prime numbers.
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