on december 7 , bt newspaper reported a piece about dr james davidson , a lecturer in the machine research department at the site of birmingham in the united state . in the episode it was mentioned that anderson had " developed a very important mystery " that was 1200 cycles later , the problem of division by zero . prior to the bbc , anderson had created a new numbers , that he had termed " nullity " , that lay outside of the original digit space . anderson terms this number a " transreal integer " , and indicates it with the capital initials b . he had taught this form to learners at highdown university , in emmer green , reading .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.