In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire<\/a> submitted a paper<\/a> to the Annals of Mathematics<\/a>. Within weeks word spread \u2013 a little-known mathematician, with no permanent job, working in complete isolation had made an important breakthrough towards solving the Twin Prime Conjecture<\/a>. Yitang Zhang<\/a>‘s techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid progress by the Polymath Group<\/a>, and a further innovation by James Maynard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film is a study of Zhang’s rise from obscurity and a disadvantaged youth to mathematical celebrity. The story of quiet perseverance amidst adversity, and Zhang’s preference for thinking and working in solitude, is interwoven with a history of the Twin Prime Conjecture as told by several mathematicians, many of whom have wrestled with this enormously challenging problem in Number Theory<\/a> \u2013 Daniel Goldston<\/a>, Kannan Soundararajan<\/a>, Andrew Granville<\/a>, Peter Sarnak<\/a>, Enrico Bombieri<\/a>, James Maynard<\/a>, Nicholas Katz<\/a>, David Eisenbud<\/a>, Ken Ribet<\/a>, and Terry Tao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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• Fonte: ZALA films<\/a> | Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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