Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
2015 | 57m | English
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| Director: | George Paul Csicsery |
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| 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: | Jan 10, 2015 |
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| Director: | George Paul Csicsery |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | professor, mathematician, prime number, cultural revolution, mathematics, new hampshire, chinese american, number theory, breakthrough, university student |
| Production Companies | ZALA Films |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $150,000 |
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Updated: Jan 31, 2026 Entered: May 06, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Zhang Yitang | Himself |
| Erica Klarreich | Herself |
| Andrew Granville | Himself |
| Terence Tao | Himself |
| James Maynard | Himself |
| Kannan Soundararajan | Himself |
| Jacob Chi | Himself |
| Peter Sarnak | Himself |
| David Eisenbud | Himself |
| Lin Chang | Herself |
| Juliet Chi | Herself |
| Julius Chi | Himself |
| Enrico Bombieri | Himself |
| Edward Hinson | Himself |
| Wenhua Qian | Himself |
| Yaling Sun | Herself |
| Kenneth Ribet | Himself |
| Nicholas M. Katz | Himself |
| Daniel Alan Goldston | Himself |
| Name | Job |
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| Kyung Lee | Editor |
| George Paul Csicsery | Director |
| Richard Chon | Original Music Composer |
| Ashley James | Director of Photography |
| Skip Sweeney | Director of Photography |
| Tal Skloot | Editor |
| Name | Title |
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| George Paul Csicsery | Producer |
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