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.
Title | Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture |
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Year | 2015 |
Genre | Documentary |
Country | United States of America |
Studio | ZALA Films |
Cast | Zhang Yitang, Erica Klarreich, Andrew Granville, Terence Tao, James Maynard, Kannan Soundararajan |
Crew | George Paul Csicsery (Director), George Paul Csicsery (Producer), Richard Chon (Original Music Composer), Ashley James (Director of Photography), Skip Sweeney (Director of Photography), Kyung Lee (Editor) |
Keyword | professor, mathematics, prime number, mathematician, cultural revolution, new hampshire, chinese american, number theory, breakthrough, university student |
Release | Jan 10, 2015 |
Runtime | 57 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 7.00 / 10 by 1 users |
Popularity | 3 |
Budget | 150,000 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | English |