Curtis Cooper (mathematician)

Curtis Cooper is an American mathematician known primarily for his work in the field of number theory and, more specifically, for his contributions to the discovery of large prime numbers. He is a key figure in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed computing project aimed at finding new Mersenne primes, which are prime numbers that can be expressed in the form \(2^p - 1\) where \(p\) is also a prime number.