Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)

2015-01-10 United States of America 57 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

Zhang Yitang is Himself
Himself
Erica Klarreich is Herself
Herself
Andrew Granville is Himself
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Terence Tao is Himself
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James Maynard is Himself
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Kannan Soundararajan is Himself
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Jacob Chi is Himself
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Peter Sarnak is Himself
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David Eisenbud is Himself
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Lin Chang is Herself
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Juliet Chi is Herself
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Julius Chi is Himself
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