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Counting from infinity : Yitang Zhang and the twin prime conjecture /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Klarreich, Erica (Narrator)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Oakland, CA : Berkeley, CA : Zala Films ; Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, [2015]
Subjects:
Zhang, Yitang, > 1955-
Numbers, Prime.
Number theory.
Mathematicians > United States > Biography.
Chinese > United States > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Biographical films.
Feature films.
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Summary:"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 obscurity and a disadvantaged youth to mathematical celebrity ... 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--Daniel Goldston, Kannan Soundararajan, Andrew Granville, Peter Sarnak, Enrico Bombieri, James Maynard, Nicholas Katz, David Eisenbud, Ken Ribet, and Terry Tao"--Container.
Item Description:Originally released as a documentary film in 2015.
Special features: The large sieve ; History of twin primes ; Landau-Siegel zero ; Polymath ; Prime numbers ; Smooth numbers ; "Bounded gaps between primes" by Yitang Zhang.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (55 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD, NTSC, widescreen; English 2.0 stereo or 5.1 surround.
Production Credits:Cinematography, Skip Sweeney, Ashley James ; editors, Kyung Lee, Tal Skloot.
ISBN:9780982480052
0982480059