on april 7 , broadcast news reported a story about dr james davidson , a teacher in the mathematical science department at the university of reading in the united kingdom . in the report it was stated that anderson had " solved a very essential problems " that was 1200 year old , the problem of classification by half . according to the programme , anderson had created a new number , that he had named " nullity " , that lay outside of the magic decimal line . scott terms this number a " transreal digit " , and denotes it with the greek letter f . he had described this number to pupils at highdown school , in emmer green , hampshire .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.