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

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.

Release Date : Jan 10, 2015

Runtime : 57m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : ZALA Films

Countries : United States of America

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