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	Mersenne biography
		Marin Mersenne was born into a working class family in the small town of Oizé in the province of Maine on 8 September 1588 and was baptised on the same day.
		Mersenne, however, was devoted to study, which he loved, and, showing that he was ready for responsibilities of the world, had decided to further his education in Paris.
		Mersenne thought Galileo's assumption that a falling body passes through infinite degrees of speed was incompatible with a genuinely mechanistic explanation of acceleration.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Mersenne.html (2965 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marin Mersenne
		Mersenne entered the novitiate of the Minims at Nigeon near Paris (1611), was sent to
		In Paris, Mersenne was Descartes's assiduous correspondent, auxiliary, and representative, as well as his constant defender.
		Mersenne asked that, after his death, an autopsy be made on his body, so as to serve to the last the interests of science.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10209b.htm (310 words)

	Marin Mersenne
		Marin Mersenne attended school at the College of Mans, Then, starting in 1604, he spent five years in the Jesuit College at La Fleche.
		Mersenne corresponded with other eminent mathematicians and he played a major role in communicating mathematical knowledge throughout Europe at a time when there were no scientific journals.
		Mersenne defended Descartes and Galileo against theological criticism and struggled to expose the pseudo sciences of alchemy and astrology.
	www.stetson.edu /~efriedma/periodictable/html/Mn.html (410 words)

	Mersenne biography
		Marin Mersenne was born into a working class family in the small town of Oizé in the province of Maine on 8 September 1588 and was baptised on the same day.
		Mersenne, however, was devoted to study, which he loved, and, showing that he was ready for responsibilities of the world, had decided to further his education in Paris.
		Mersenne thought Galileo's assumption that a falling body passes through infinite degrees of speed was incompatible with a genuinely mechanistic explanation of acceleration.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Mersenne.html (2965 words)

	Marin Mersenne
		Mersenne entered the novitiate of the Minims at Nigeon near Paris (1611), was sent to Nevers as professor of philosophy (1614-1620), and returned to Paris.
		In Paris, Mersenne was Descartes's assiduous correspondent, auxiliary, and representative, as well as his constant defender.
		Mersenne asked that, after his death, an autopsy be made on his body, so as to serve to the last the interests of science.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/mersenne,marin.html (284 words)

	PlanetMath: Mersenne numbers
		Mersenne primes have a strong connection with perfect numbers.
		It is conjectured that the density of Mersenne primes with exponent
		This is version 14 of Mersenne numbers, born on 2001-10-18, modified 2007-06-30.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/MersenneNumbers.html (189 words)

	Marin Mersenne balance
		The name of Father Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) is well known, an intimate friend of Descartes, whose monastic cell served as the meeting place for the discussion of scientific themes and was the origin of the future Académie des Sciences.
		Mersenne balance is composed of a beam having equal arms from which the pans are suspended at quite different levels.
		Mersenne concluded that the heights of the falls are in direct relation to the square of the maximum weights that can be made to bounce.
	nautilus.fis.uc.pt /museu/58ing.htm (910 words)

	Marin Mersenne - Catholic Encyclopedia - Catholic Online
		Mersenne entered the novitiate of the Minims at Nigeon near Paris (1611), was sent to Nevers as professor of philosophy (1614-1620), and returned to Paris.
		His chief merit, however, is rather the encouragement which he gave to scientists of his time, the interest he took in their work, and the stimulating influence of his suggestions and questions.
		Mersenne asked that, after his death, an autopsy be made on his body, so as to serve to the last the interests of science.
	www.catholic.org /encyclopedia/view.php?id=7913 (658 words)

	Prime Numbers - MSN Encarta
		Mersenne primes are a specific type of prime number that can be derived using the formula 2
		Not every prime value of n results in a prime solution to the equation, but the chances of the solution being prime are much greater than for a randomly selected number.
		Mersenne primes are named after the 17th-century French mathematician Marin Mersenne who discovered them.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701509034/Prime_Numbers.html (467 words)

	Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists
		It was obvious to Mersenne's peers that he could not have tested all of these numbers (in fact he admitted as much), but they could not test them either.
		After the 23rd Mersenne prime was found at the University of Illinois, the mathematics department was so proud that they had their postage meter changed to stamp "2^11213-1 is prime" on each envelope.
		The 25th and 26th Mersenne primes were found by high-school students Laura Nickel and Curt Noll, who, though they had no understanding of the mathematics involved, used Lucas' simple test on the local university's mainframe (CSUH's CDC 720) to find the next two primes.
	cage.rug.ac.be /~hvernaev/mersenne.shtml (1397 words)

	Marin Mersenne - LoveToKnow 1911
		MARIN MERSENNE (1588-1648), French philosopher and mathematician, was born of peasant parents near Oize (Sarthe) on the 8th of September 1588, and died in Paris on the 1st of September 1648.
		See Baillet, Vie de Descartes (1691); Pote, Eloge de Mersenne (1816).
		This page was last modified 14:14, 22 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Marin_Mersenne (269 words)

	Team Primemasta - A GIMPS team
		Mersenne corresponded or was personally acquainted with Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, Galileo, Thomas Hobbes, and Pascal.
		Mersenne was born at Oizé, France, on Sept. 8, 1588, and he studied at the Jesuit college in La Flèche.
		Despite these contributions, Mersenne is remembered principally as an "intelligencer" - a man who facilitated the cross-fertilization of the finest European minds of his age.
	n.ethz.ch /student/cflaig/primemasta/faq.htm (703 words)

	History 1600 A.D. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marin Mersenne was a French mathematician born in 1588.
		Mersenne was a Franciscan friar who made it his business to become acquainted and correspond with other French mathematicians and foreign contemporaries.
		Although it was obvious that Mersenne could not have tested all of these cases (in fact, he admitted as much), neither could his peers.
	faculty.oxy.edu /jquinn/home/Math490/Timeline/1600AD.html (517 words)

	Marin Mersenne Biography \| World of Physics
		Marin Mersenne was a French monk, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher known for his development of the Mersenne primes, which have played a significant role in number theory for several centuries.
		Mersenne proposed that the pendulum would be a good timing device to Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch mathematician who is credited with its invention, and strongly supported the value of rigid experimentation in the study of nature.
		Mersenne's voluminous publications included Cognita Physico-Mathematica, in which he set forth his Mersenne prime formula; Les Méchanique de Galilée, about the work of Galileo; and Traité d'Harmonie Universelle, in which he discussed music and acoustics, establishing that the intensity of a sound is in inverse proportion to the distance from its source.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/marin-mersenne-wop (432 words)

	Marin Mersenne
		Mersenne continued his education within the order at Nigeon and then at Meaux.
		Mersenne corresponded with other eminent mathematicians and he played a major role in communicating mathematical knowledge throughout Europe at a time when there were no scientific journals.
		Marin Mersenne has a "Gavotte" published in Tänze und Stücke alter Meister.
	www.grainger.de /music/composers/mersenne.html (260 words)

	Will Edgington's Mersenne Page
		Marin Mersenne pages, which include links to a mailing list about Mersenne numbers and GIMPS, to sign up for the mailing list, and to the mailing list's archives.
		The exponents of known Mersenne primes are in primeM.txt ; the complete factorizations known to me are in factoredM.txt (the largest prime factor is almost always implied, as some of them are _very_ large), and the roughly 8 MB lowM.txt contains the known information for all other Mersenne numbers with exponents less than 200,000.
		The status of Mersenne numbers with a Mersenne prime exponent (that is, M(M(p)) where M(p) = 2↑p - 1 is a Mersenne prime) is in MMPstats.txt.
	www.garlic.com /~wedgingt/mersenne.html (3485 words)

	Marin Marais - musicolog.com
		Born on 31 May 1656, the son of a shoemaker, Marin Marais became a choirboy at the Saint-Germain-I'Auxerrois in Paris, around the same time as another boy with a promising future - M.R. Delalande (1656-1726), who was to make his name as a composer of sacred music.
		Marin Marais thus took advantage of this teaching and soon surpassed his master.
		Unfortunately, Marais' pieces for viol came at the end of an era: in the last years of the seventeenth century, the indispensible viols, without which no music for church or chamber would have been possible, and which were considered as the aristocrats of string instruments, were replaced in Italy by the violin family.
	www.musicolog.com /marais_about.asp (1499 words)

	Off the Kuff: New Mersenne prime found
		Mersenne primes are a special category, expressed as 2 to the "p" power minus 1, where "p" also is a prime number.
		Mersenne (pronounced mehr-SANE, named for a 17th century French monk/amateur mathematician Marin Mersenne, who was also a regular correspondent of Pierre Fermat) primes are cool, if you're into numbers.
		This page has some good history about Mersenne primes as well as some of the math surrounding them, such as the proof that if (2^p)-1 is prime, then p must be prime.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/002724.html (872 words)

	Marin Mersenne Biography \| scit_03123_package.xml
		Mersenne was born on September 8, 1588, near the town of Oize in France, and at the age of 23 became a Catholic friar.
		Mersenne also had an opportunity to read manuscripts by Descartes and others, in some cases long before they were published.
		Mersenne was also the one who suggested that Huygens use a pendulum as a timekeeping device, and this led to the latter's introduction of the pendulum clock in 1656.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/marin-mersenne-scit-03123 (441 words)

	Mersenne Primes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number which is also a prime number.
		Mersenne numbers are named after French monk Father Marin Mersenne, who proposed an assertion about the primality of a certain class of numbers.
		Mersenne prime numbers have been the largest prime numbers found to date over the past few years.
	www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /~svun/math/primes.htm (1308 words)

	DCCentral [Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search]
		There have been only 38 Mersenne prime numbers found, and the GIMPS search is focusing on the large primes — numbers so huge that it could take your computer up to a year to crunch one exponent.
		The Mersenne prime search was formed in 1996, and — ever since the project launched — a new world-record Mersenne prime has been discovered every year.
		When the project began, there were only 40 people and a little over 50 computers using their spare CPU cycles; the project has since grown to thousands of users and computers.
	library.thinkquest.org /C007645/english/2-mersenne-0.htm (510 words)

	Mersenne, Marin (1588-1648)
		A French monk, philosopher, and mathematician best remembered for his work to find a formulate to generate prime numbers based on what are now known as Mersenne numbers.
		However, he was not primarily a mathematician; he wrote about music theory and other subjects, edited works of Euclid, Archimedes, and other Greek mathematicians, but most importantly corresponded extensively with mathematicians and other scientists in many countries.
		At a time before scientific journals existed, Mersenne was at the heart of a network for information exchange.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Mersenne.html (109 words)

	Personal Web Space of Philip Fizur at Temple University
		Mersenne stated in the preface to his Cogitata Physica-Mathematica (1644) that the numbers 2n-1 were prime for
		Mersenne's (incorrect) conjecture fared only slightly better than Regius', but still got his name attached to these numbers.
		It was obvious to Mersenne's peers that he could not have tested all of these numbers (in fact he admitted as much), but they could not test them either.
	astro.temple.edu /~pfizur/mersenne.html (702 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Mersenne is most well-known for his network of correspondents.
		From 1623 Mersenne began to make the careful selection of savants who met at his convent in Paris or corresponded with him from all over Europe and as far afield as Tunisia, Syria, and Constantinople.
		It was in Mersenne's quarters that in 1647 the young Blaise Pascal met Descartes.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/mersenne.html (891 words)

	39th Mersenne Prime Discovered
		The discovery marks only the 39th known Mersenne prime, named after Marin Mersenne, a 17th century French monk who first studied the numbers.
		Mersenne primes are most relevant to number theory, but most participants join GIMPS simply for the fun of having a role in real research - and the chance of finding a new Mersenne prime.
		The study of Mersenne primes has been central to number theory since they were first discussed by Euclid in 350 BC.
	www.lehigh.edu /~bad0/13466917bd.html (1108 words)

	Mersenne primes
		Mersenne numbers are named for the French mathematician Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), who studied them.
		Mersenne showed that if (2^p) - 1 is prime, then p must be prime (the converse is not true, e.g.
		Nowadays, most of the interest in Mersenne numbers is connected with the search for larger and larger prime numbers.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /newton/askasci/1995/math/MATH037.HTM (373 words)

	Mersenne Prime Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) was a Franciscan friar who lived most of his life in Parisian cloisters.
		The concept of a Mersenne Prime is evolved from that of a perfect number.
		A Mersenne Number is a number Mm which may or may not be prime.
	www.resort.com /~banshee/Info/mersenne.html (465 words)

	getty.net GIMPS Participation
		Mersenne numbers are named after the French monk Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) who stated in the preface to his Cogitata Physica-Mathematica (1644) the definition of what would later be known as a Mersenne Prime Number.
		A total of five Mersenne primes would be found between the time of Mersenne's death and the 1950s when six more Mersenne primes were found using computers, bringing the total to 18.
		Mersenne Primes were found using the PrimeNet central server in conjunction with the GIMPS effort.
	getty.net /gimps (1372 words)

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