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.

RATING

7.00

DIRECTOR

George Paul Csicsery

COUNTRIE

United States of America

RELEASE DATE

2015

TIME

0h 57m

GENRE

Documentary