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).He studied topology at Princeton, where he invented the Tuckerman traverse method for revealing all the faces of a flexagon.
On March 4, 1971, he discovered the 24th Mersenne prime, a titanic prime, with a value of
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Published: 1962
Superior document: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 56
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Published: 1964
Superior document: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 59
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Published: 1986
Superior document: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 170