Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known mathematician, with no permanent job, working in complete isolation, had made an important breakthrough toward solving the Twin Prime Conjecture. Yitang Zhang's techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid progress by the Polymath Group, and a further innovation by James Maynard.
Directed by George Paul Csicsery
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- Zhang Yitang Himself
- Erica Klarreich Herself
- Andrew Granville Himself
- Terence Tao Himself
- James Maynard Himself
- Kannan Soundararajan Himself
- Jacob Chi Himself
- Peter Sarnak Himself
- David Eisenbud Himself
- Lin Chang Herself
- Juliet Chi Herself
- Julius Chi Himself
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