Counting From Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Primes Conjecture (for Individual Purchase) from counting to infinity Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 32 min 93 sec ✓ Published: 08-Dec-2015
Description: 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 towards 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. The film is a study of Zhang's rise from obscur
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