Nationality American Name Bryant Tuckerman | Role Mathematician Fields Mathematics | |
Born November 28, 1915
Lincoln, Nebraska ( 1915-11-28 ) Institutions Cornell University
Oberlin College Alma mater Princeton University
Antioch College Died May 19, 2002, Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States Books Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649 at Five-day and Ten-day Intervals Education Antioch College, Princeton University | ||
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.
Also, on March 4, 1971, he discovered the 24th Mersenne prime, a titanic prime, with a value of
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