Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
10 January 2015| 57 min
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.
Genres
Documentary
Cast
Zhang Yitang
Erica Klarreich
Andrew Granville
Terence Tao
James Maynard
Kannan Soundararajan
Jacob Chi
Peter Sarnak
David Eisenbud
Lin Chang
Juliet Chi
Julius Chi
Enrico Bombieri
Edward Hinson
Wenhua Qian
Yaling Sun
Kenneth Ribet
Nicholas M. Katz
Daniel Alan Goldston
