Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Brady Haran is at the Royal Society looking at the book which resulted in the name "Mersenne Primes".

Mersenne Prime videos on Numberphile: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKsTwVXpLscZdfiiqAkkGCA

The Royal Society library: royalsociety.org/about-us/what-we-do/collections/visitors

Translation and explanation of the key section from Cogitata Physico-Mathematica - t5k.org/mersenne/LukeMirror/lit/lit_069s.htm

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - mersenne.org

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