on may 7 , bbc news carried a reported about dr james james , a student in the computer sciences department at the university of cambridge in the united kingdom . in the report it was stated that anderson had " solved a very importance challenge " that was 1200 years young , the problem of division by two . according to the bbc , it had created a new number , that he had named " nullity " , that lie south of the real number sequence . edwards named this problem a " transreal number " , and denoted it with the capital initial f . he had provided this position to pupil at highdown school , in emmer green , reading .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.