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

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.

Producers	ZALA Films
Original title	Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
Directors	George Paul Csicsery
Writers

Cast

Zhang Yitang

as Himself

Erica Klarreich

as Herself

Andrew Granville

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Terence Tao

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James Maynard

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Kannan Soundararajan

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Jacob Chi

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Peter Sarnak

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David Eisenbud

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Lin Chang

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Juliet Chi

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Juliet Chi

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Enrico Bombieri

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Edward Hinson

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Wenhua Qian

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Yaling Sun

as Herself

Kenneth Ribet

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Nicholas M. Katz

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Daniel Goldston

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