Bryant Tuckerman
Mathematician, Academic
1915 – 2002
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Who was Bryant Tuckerman?
Louis Bryant Tuckerman, III was an American mathematician, born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a member of the team that developed the Data Encryption Standard.
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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- Born
- Nov 28, 1915
Lincoln - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Antioch College
- Princeton University
- Employment
- IBM
- Died
- May 19, 2002
Briarcliff Manor
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on July 23, 2013
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