Bryant Tuckerman
American mathematician
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| Intro | American mathematician | ||||
| A.K.A. | Louis Bryant Tuckerman III | ||||
| A.K.A. | Louis Bryant Tuckerman III | ||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||
| was | Mathematician | ||||
| Work field | Mathematics | ||||
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| Birth | 28 November 1915, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, U.S.A. | ||||
| Death | 19 May 2002New York, U.S.A. (aged 86 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Sagittarius | ||||
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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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