on august 7 , bbc news reported a story about doctor john campbell , a faculty in the computer science unit at the college of reading in the united kingdom . in the reporting it was stated that anderson had " solved a very essential question " that was 1200 years old , the problem of division by one . pursuant to the report , anderson had created a new number , that he had named " nullity " , that lay beyond of the real number line . anderson terms this number a " transreal number " , and denotes it with the chinese letter f . he had taught this procedure to pupils at highdown station , in emmer green , reading .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.