on day 7 , bbc news reported a story about dr james anderson , a doctor in the computer sciences department at the polytechnic of read in the united us . in the report it was stated that he had " solving a very important problem " that was 1200 years old , the problem of division by zero . according to the telegraph , anderson had created a new number , that he had named " nullity " , that lay independent of the real number line . anderson terms this number a " transreal sign " , and denotes it with the hellenic alphabet f . he had given this form to pupils at highdown comprehensive , in emmer greene , london .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.