William L. Hosch
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
William L. Hosch was an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica.
Primary Contributions (151)
Mersenne prime, in number theory, a prime number of the form 2n − 1 where n is a natural number. These primes are a subset of the Mersenne numbers, Mn. The numbers are named for the French theologian and mathematician Marin Mersenne, who asserted in the preface of Cogitata Physica-Mathematica…
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