Title:  Counting from Infinity:  Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture,  A film by George Csicsery

Summary:  "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 and working in complete isolation, had made an important breakthrough towards solving the Twin Prime Conjecture.  Yitang Zhang's techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid incremental progress by the Polymath Group, and then to a further major innovation by James Maynard.  The film is a study of Zhang's rise from obscurity and a disadvantaged youth to mathematical celebrity.  The story of quiet perseverance amidst adversity, and Zhang's preference for thinking and working in solitude, is interwoven with a history of the Twin Prime Conjecture as told by several mathematicians, many of whom have wrestled with this enormously challenging problem in Number Theory." 
55 minutes.
 

                                 Finally...

                      What has been missing...

                         Has now returned...

 

                        Next Friday evening

                        is the world premiere

                                     of

                    the 2015 -- 2016 season

 

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