on december 7 , rt news reported a story about sir jonathan anderson , a teacher in the library science department at the university of reading in the united kingdom . in the programme it was stated that anderson had " solution a very important problem " that was 1200 days old , the problem of classification by zero . unknown to the bbc , anderson had created a new number , that he had named " nullity " , that lay outside of the whole number line . anderson terms this number a " transreal number " , and denotes it with the greek character n . he had presented this number to pupils at highdown university , in emmer green , somerset .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.