Name: Thomas Ray Nicely

Born: February 6, 1943, in West Virginia, USA

Death: September 11, 2019 (Age: 76)

  • Independently discovered and publicly disclosed the Pentium FDIV bug in the Intel P5 Pentium FPU (floating-point unit) in October 1994.
  • Professor of mathematics at Lynchburg College (now University of Lynchburg) in Virginia for over forty years.
  • Noted for his contributions to the field of number theory regarding prime numbers, and for publishing his work in the public domain.

Websites

  • In memoriam: Dr. Thomas Nicely