Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)
57 min
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.
- Release date
- January 10, 2015
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Richard Chon
- Budget
- $150,000
Cast
- Yitang Zhang as Self
- Andrew Granville as Self
Crew
- George Paul Csicsery · Director
- George Paul Csicsery · Producer
- Richard Chon · Composer
- Ashley James · Cinematographer
- Skip Sweeney · Cinematographer
- Kyung Lee · Editor
- Tal Skloot · Editor