Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

2015
57m
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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.

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Production Companies
ZALA Films
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

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

Quick Facts

Release Date January 10, 2015
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt4363984

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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Juliet Chi
Juliet Chi

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Julius Chi
Julius Chi

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Key Crew

George Paul Csicsery
Director
George Paul Csicsery
Producer