Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises

The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown mathematician who two years ago solved a major problem in number theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.

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Yitang Zhang is now a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Read Quanta Magazine’s conversation with him: https://www.quantamagazine.org/201504.... Video by George Csicsery and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

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