It has been proven that there is no largest Prime number. You can find a list of the largest KNOWN prime numbers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_number
No "largest" composite number exists.
On Jan. 25, 2013, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.
On Jan. 25, 2013, the largest known prime number, 2^57,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer.
I assume you mean twin prime. It is currently unknown whether or not there are an infinite number of twin primes in which case there would be no largest twin prime. The largest discovered is 65516468355 · 2333333 ± 1 (so the bigger of the two is 65516468355 · 2333333 + 1).
indian mathematician aryabhatta
An Indian mathematician by the name of Arya Bhatta discovered the number zero.
No "largest" composite number exists.
No "largest" composite number exists.
we probably haven't discovered the "largest" prime number... but the NEXT largest prime number after 79 is 83
Johann Heinrich Lambert, however, Johann was Swiss, not French.
The amicable numbers 2620 and 2924 were discovered by the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras. These numbers have a special relationship where the sum of the factors of one number equals the other, and vice versa.
Because they are named after the 13th century mathematician Leonardo de Pisa, who was also called Leonardo Fibonacci. He discovered the number sequence, and their relation to Pi.
Prime numbers are discovered, as they exist as part of number theory. As of April 2011, the largest known prime number is 243,112,609 − 1. This number was discovered in 2008 by Edson Smith, a systems administrator at UCLA.
It has not yet been discovered because numbers are infinite
2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one.
A mathematician.
Mathematician?