on december 7 , bt sports reported a story about prof james anderson , a teacher in the computer science department at the university of bath in the united kingdom . in the reports it was stated that anderson had " resolved a very important problem " that was 1200 years old , the problem of division by zero . similar to the bbc , anderson had created a new number , that he had labeled " nullity " , that lay outside of the real number plane . anderson terms this integer a " transreal integer " , and denotes it with the greek letter f . he had learned this number to pupils at highdown school , in emmer hill , readings .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.