Bryant Tuckerman | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1915-11-28)November 28, 1915 Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.1 |
| Died | May 19, 2002(2002-05-19) (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Antioch College1 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Cornell University Oberlin College |
Louis Bryant Tuckerman III (November 28, 1915 – May 19, 2002) was an American mathematician. 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
On March 4, 1971, he discovered the 24th Mersenne prime,23 a titanic prime, with a value of
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References
References
- "Obituaries: Bryant Tuckerman". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 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. Bibcode:1971PNAS...68.2319T. doi:10.1073/pnas.68.10.2319. JSTOR 61035. PMC 389411. PMID 16591945.
- Caldwell, Chris. "Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists". Retrieved February 21, 2013.