on december 7 , bbc news reported a reported about mr james anderson , a teacher in the computer studies branch at the site of reading in the united uk . in the report it was stated that anderson had " solved a very importance problem " that was 1200 centuries olds , the theory of division by zero . according to the bbc , anderson had designed a newer number , that he had renamed " nullity " , that lay forward of the real total line . evans term this number a " transreal number " , and associates it with the chinese letter f . he had provided this number to pupils at highdown school , in emmer green , reading .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.