Bryant Tuckerman

Bryant Tuckerman
Born	November 28, 1915(1915-11-28) Lincoln, Nebraska
Died	May 19, 2002(2002-05-19) (aged 86) Briarcliff Manor, New York
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Cornell University Oberlin College
Alma mater	Princeton University Antioch College

Louis Bryant Tuckerman, III (November 28, 1915 – May 19, 2002) was an American mathematician, born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a member of the team that developed the Data Encryption Standard (DES).

He studied topology at Princeton, where he invented the Tuckerman traverse method for revealing all the faces of a flexagon.

He was also the discoverer, on March 4, 1971, of the 24th Mersenne prime, a titanic prime, with a value of

$2^{19937}-1$ .

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Tuckerman Obituary

Persondata
Name	Tuckerman, Bryant
Alternative names
Short description	American mathematician
Date of birth	November 28, 1915
Place of birth	Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of death	May 19, 2002
Place of death	Briarcliff Manor, New York