Bryant Tuckerman
| Bryant Tuckerman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 28, 1915 Lincoln, Nebraska[1] |
| Died |
May 19, 2002 (aged 86) Briarcliff Manor, New York[1] |
| Nationality |
 American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Cornell University Oberlin College |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Antioch College[1] |
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).[1]
He studied topology at Princeton, where he invented the Tuckerman traverse method for revealing all the faces of a flexagon.[1]
Also, on March 4, 1971, he discovered the 24th Mersenne prime,[2][3] a titanic prime, with a value of
.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Obituaries: Bryant Tuckerman". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ↑ Tuckerman, Bryant (October 1971). "The 24th Mersenne Prime". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 68 (10): 2319–2320. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ↑ Caldwell, Chris. "Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists". Retrieved 21 February 2013.
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