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Movie·2015·0h 57m

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

Country

United States of America

Language

English

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The Story

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.

Producer

George Paul Csicsery

Cinematography

Ashley James

Music

Richard Chon

Editor

Kyung Lee

Themes

professormathematicsprime numbermathematiciancultural revolutionnew hampshirechinese americannumber theorybreakthroughuniversity student

Production House

ZALA Films

Audience Score

70%

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Timepass22%
Go for it39%
Perfection29%

Where to watch

Region: US

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Cast

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

// crew

Crew

George Paul Csicsery

Director, Producer

Ashley James

Director of Photography

Skip Sweeney

Director of Photography

Kyung Lee

Editor

Richard Chon

Original Music Composer

Tal Skloot

Editor

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