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The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative distributed computing project dedicated to finding new Mersenne prime numbers. Mersenne primes are prime numbers that can be expressed in the form \(M_n = 2^n - 1\), where \(n\) is an integer.
George Woltman is a mathematician known primarily for his contributions to the field of computer science, particularly in the area of software development for the discovery of large prime numbers. He is recognized for creating the program known as "Prime95," which is used for primality testing and is part of the GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) project.