Bryant Tuckerman
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Bryant Tuckerman | |
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Born | Lincoln, Nebraska[1] |
November 28, 1915
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. 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
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