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

2^{19937}-1.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Obituaries: Bryant Tuckerman". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  2. 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.
  3. Caldwell, Chris. "Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists". Retrieved 21 February 2013.

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