HISTORICAL ARCHIVE

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

上映日期

2015-01-10

片长

57分钟

地区

United States of America

来源评分

7

历史票数

1

故事简介

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.