on december 7 , bbc sport reported a story about professors james edwards , a teacher in the computer science department at the university of reading in the united kingdom . in the report it was claimed that anderson had " discovered a very interesting situation " that was 1200 years newer , the mystery of division by zero . new to the bbc , anderson had created a new number , that he had dubbed " nullity " , that lay outside of the real one line . it terms this number a " transreal sum " , and denotes it with the greek letters f . he had taught this number to pupils at highdown school , in emmer gray , hertfordshire .
Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.