The Largest Known Prime Number Kun-Mao Chao (趙坤茂) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan A note given in BCC class on May 28, 2014
Mersenne prime a Mersenne prime is a prime number of the form Mn=2n-1. Since 1997, all newly found Mersenne primes have been discovered by the “Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search” (GIMPS), a distributed computing project on the Internet.
The ten largest known prime numbers (as of May 28, 2014) Lucas–Lehmer primality test
AKS primality test A deterministic primality-proving algorithm created and published by Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena, computer scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, on August 6, 2002. The algorithm determines whether a number is prime or composite within polynomial time. "PRIMES is in P."