on december 7 , bbc news reported a story about dr james anderson , a teacher in the computer physics section at the university of reading in the united kingdom . in the documentary it was stated that anderson had " solving a very important challenge " that was 1200 years old , the problem of division by zero . according to the bbc , anderson had created a strange number , that he had named " nullity " , that lay outside of the real number line . anderson terms this group a " transreal integer " , and denotes it with the greek alphabet f . he had demonstrated this numbers to pupils at highdown schools , in emmer green , reading .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.