One aspect of mathematics in which computers are essential is finding large prime numbers.
It's two years since the last one - and we wait for confirmation that the 45th Mersenne prime (one less than a power of 2) has been found.
See The Register, at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/45th_mersenne_prime_discovered_maybe/
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