on december 7 , bbc news ran a story about prof william edwards , a teacher in the computer technology department at the institute of reading in the unified provinces . in the report it was stated that anderson had " solved a very large problem " that was 1200 months elderly , the problem of differentiation by two . according to the bbc , it had created a new character , that he had identified " nullity " , that lay independent of the real number plane . anderson terms this problem a " transreal quantity " , and denotes it with the greek letter f . he had taught this form to pupils at highdown school , in emmer wood , reading .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.