Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
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January 10, 2015
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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.
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Zhang Yitang
HimselfErica Klarreich
HerselfAndrew Granville
HimselfTerence Tao
HimselfJames Maynard
HimselfKannan Soundararajan
HimselfJacob Chi
HimselfPeter Sarnak
HimselfDavid Eisenbud
HimselfLin Chang
HerselfJuliet Chi
HerselfJulius Chi
HimselfEnrico Bombieri
HimselfEdward Hinson
HimselfWenhua Qian
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