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Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (Biography)

Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (1842 - 1928) British mathematician born in India, best known for researching the factorizations of large Mersenne numbers and Fermat numbers. In connection to these he also studied cuban primes. The Cunningham project was named in his honor.



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Other names:  A. J. C. Cunningham
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Cross-references: project, cuban primes, connection, Fermat numbers, Mersenne numbers

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AMS MSC: 01A55 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: 19th century)
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