Research and Background
Mr Anderson is a member of the British Computer Society, the British Machine Vision Association, Eurographics, and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. He is also a teacher in the Computer Science department (School of Systems Engineering) at the University of Reading. He was a psychology graduate who worked in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering departments at the University of Sussex and Plymouth Polytechnic (now the University of Plymouth). His doctorate is from the University of Reading for (in Anderson's words) "developing a canonical description of the perspective transformations in whole numbered dimensions".
He has written two papers on division by zero and has invented what he calls the "Perspex machine".
Anderson claims that "mathematical arithmetic is sociologically invalid" and that IEEE floating-point arithmetic, with NaN, is also faulty.
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