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.

Genre: Documentary

Stars: Zhang Yitang, Erica Klarreich, Andrew Granville, Terence Tao, James Maynard, Kannan Soundararajan

Crew: Tal David Skloot (Editor), Kyung Lee (Editor), Ashley James (Director of Photography), Skip Sweeney (Director of Photography), Richard Chon (Original Music Composer), George Paul Csicsery (Director)

Country: United States of America

Language: English

Studio: ZALA Films

Runtime: 57 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Jan 10, 2015

IMDb: 4

Keywords:professor, mathematics, prime number, mathematician, cultural revolution, new hampshire, chinese american, number theory, breakthrough, university student

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Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

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