Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

7.0(1 votes)
2015
0h 57m
Documentary

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.

Production

ZALA Films

Cast

Zhang Yitang

Zhang Yitang

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Erica Klarreich

Erica Klarreich

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Andrew Granville

Andrew Granville

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Terence Tao

Terence Tao

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James Maynard

James Maynard

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Kannan Soundararajan

Kannan Soundararajan

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Jacob Chi

Jacob Chi

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Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak

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David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud

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Lin Chang

Lin Chang

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