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

Production companies : ZALA Films /

January 10, 2015 57m United States of America Documentary English More

User Score

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.

Top Billed Cast

Recommendations



title：Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
status：Released
Release date： 2015
Runtime：57m
Genres： Documentary ·
Countries of origin： United States of America ·
Original Language： English ·
Director： George Paul Csicsery /
Writers：
Production companies： ZALA Films ·
Budget：$150,000.00
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.