Mathematician:Paul Gage

Mathematician

Discoverer, with David Slowinski, of the $32$nd, $33$rd and $34$th Mersenne primes: $2^{756 \, 839} - 1$ (in $1992$), $2^{859 \, 433} - 1$ (in $1994$) and $2^{1 \, 257 \, 787} - 1$ (in $1996$).