Bryant Tuckerman

Bryant Tuckerman
Born	November 28, 1915 Lincoln, Nebraska[1]
Died	May 19, 2002 (aged 86) 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

${\displaystyle 2^{19937}-1}$.

References

1. "Obituaries: Bryant Tuckerman". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 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.

External links

• Tuckerman Obituary