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American mathematician
A.K.A.
Louis Bryant Tuckerman III
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Male
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Birth:
28 November 1915(Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, U.S.A.)
Death:
19 May 2002(New York, U.S.A.)
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Family:
Mother:
Una Venable
Father:
Louis Bryant Tuckerman II
The details
Biography
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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