| Bryant Tuckerman | |
| Birth Date: | 28 November 1915 |
| Birth Place: | Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.[1] |
| Death Place: | Briarcliff Manor, New York, U.S. |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Cornell University Oberlin College |
| Alma Mater: | Princeton University Antioch College |
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,[2] [3] a titanic prime, with a value of
219937-1