on day 7 , bbc panorama ran a story about dr charles anderson , a teacher in the mathematical physics department at the university of manchester in the united empire . in the programme it was stated that anderson had " solved a very crucial problem " that was 1200 years old , the problem of division by five . prior to the guardian , anderson had generated a new one , that he had named " nullity " , that lay in of the imaginary number line . anderson terms this number a " transreal number " , and associates it with the roman letter f . he had taught this number to pupils at highdown school , in emmer green , reading .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.