Curtis Niles Cooper is an American mathematician who was a professor at the University of Central Missouri, in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Using software from the GIMPS project, Cooper and Steven Boone found the 43rd known Mersenne prime on their 700 PC cluster on December 15, 2005.
This prime was discovered on September 4, 2006, using a PC cluster of over 850 machines.
[6] Independent of Kennedy, Cooper has also done work about generalizations of geometric series, and their application to probability.
[7] Cooper is also the editor of the publication Fibonacci Quarterly.