Bryant Tuckerman

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]

Bryant Tuckerman
Born(1915-11-28)November 28, 1915
Lincoln, Nebraska[1]
DiedMay 19, 2002(2002-05-19) (aged 86)
Briarcliff Manor, New York[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
Antioch College[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCornell University
Oberlin College

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. "Obituaries: Bryant Tuckerman". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Archived from the original on 2014-07-23. 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. JSTOR 61035.
  3. Caldwell, Chris. "Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists". Retrieved 21 February 2013.


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