Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

About 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 toward solving the Twin Prime Conjecture.

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture is a 2015 documentary film directed by George Paul Csicsery. Its themes are professor, mathematics, new hampshire, and mathematician.

Zhang Yitang stars as Himself, Erica Klarreich as Herself, Andrew Granville as Himself, and Terence Tao as Himself. At 57 minutes long, it arrived in January 2015.

It streams on PBS and WETA+ in the United States.

Marguerite's Theorem, A Beautiful Mind, and Cube make useful companions to Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture, all filed under prime number.