Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Zhang Yitang

Himself

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	George Paul Csicsery
Production	Producer	George Paul Csicsery
Camera	Director of Photography	Skip Sweeney Ashley James
Editing	Editor	Kyung Lee Tal David Skloot
Sound	Original Music Composer	Richard Chon
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