Louis Bryant Tuckerman, III (November 28, 1915 – May 19, 2002) was an American mathematician born inLincoln, Nebraska. He was a member of the team that developed theData Encryption Standard (DES).^[1]

He studiedtopology atPrinceton, where he invented theTuckerman traverse method for revealing all the faces of aflexagon.^[1]

On March 4, 1971, he discovered the 24thMersenne prime,^[2][3] atitanic prime, with a value of

${\displaystyle 2^{19937}-1}$.

• Tuckerman Obituary

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