I'm new. Does Veeky Forums rate Pythagoras?

Mersenne primes correspond 1-1 with even perfect numbers. (2^p - 1) (2^(p-1)) if 2^p-1 is a Mersenne prime.

Now that is interesting. I should read more. I really don't give a fuck about a computer finding the biggest prime number. There must be more to it.

>correspond 1-1
Maybe. False assertion.

Was not a real person.

False. This things always start with one guy, even if that guy get more credit than he is due.

Pythagoras is about as real as Euclid and Homer.

>a dark age of knowledge (in his case, Greek mathematics) that we've only recently emerged from.
user, Greek mathematics from the era of Euclid onward was the best in the world and part of the foundation for that was laid by Pythagoras. The Greeks invented the proof-based approach that is the basis of modern mathematics. The dark ages of math was in fact the actual Dark Ages.