Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

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

Directed by George Paul Csicsery

Documentary · 57m

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.

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Cast

Z
Zhang Yitang Himself
E
Erica Klarreich Herself
A
Andrew Granville Himself
T
Terence Tao Himself
J
James Maynard Himself
K
Kannan Soundararajan Himself
J
Jacob Chi Himself
P
Peter Sarnak Himself
D
David Eisenbud Himself
L
Lin Chang Herself
J
Juliet Chi Herself
J
Julius Chi Himself

Crew

Director
George Paul Csicsery
Director of Photography
Ashley James, Skip Sweeney
Original Music Composer
Richard Chon
Editor
Tal Skloot, Kyung Lee
Producer
George Paul Csicsery

Details

Release date
2015-01-10
Runtime
57m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
ZALA Films
Budget
$150,000