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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    Factorizations of bn + - 1 b=2,3,5,6,7,10,11,12 up to high powers /

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