on dec 7 , bbc news reported a story about dr james evans , a lecturer in the computer biology department at the university of read in the us nations . in the report it was declared that anderson had " solved a very important problem " that was 1200 years age , the issue of division by zero . according to the newspaper , i had created a strange number , that he had named " nullity " , that lay outside of the real numerical line . anderson terms this numbering a " transreal sum " , and denotes it with the greek letter f . he had taught this number to pupils at highdown school , in emmer green , reads .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.