Bryant Tuckerman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mathematician
Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1915
Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Date of Death: 19-May-2002
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About 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.Also, on March 4, 1971, he discovered the 24th Mersenne prime, a titanic prime, with a value of 2 19937 - 1 {\displaystyle 2^{19937}-1} .
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