Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

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Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

Overview:
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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Date Released:
01/10/2015

SPOTLIGHT

Cast

Zhang Yitang

Zhang Yitang

Himself

Erica Klarreich

Erica Klarreich

Herself

Andrew Granville

Andrew Granville

Himself

Terence Tao

Terence Tao

Himself

James Maynard

James Maynard

Himself

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