Mathematician:Bryant Tuckerman

Mathematician
American mathematician who discovered, on March $4$th, $1971$, the $24$th Mersenne prime: $2^{19 \, 937} - 1$.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: November 28, 1915
 * Died: May 19, 2002

Theorems and Inventions

 * The Tuckerman Traverse: a method for revealing all the faces of a flexagon.


 * A member of the team that designed the Data Encryption Standard (DES).


 * Published a proof in $1968$ that an odd perfect number has to be greater than $10^{36}$.

Publications