Yitang Zhang

"A mathematician who went from obscurity to luminary status in 2013 for cracking a century-old question about prime numbers now claims to have solved another. The problem is similar to—but distinct from—the Riemann hypothesis, which is considered one of the most important problems in mathematics."

Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians, including former Member Yitang Zhang...

PBS THIRTEEN's Counting From Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture chronicles a string of mathematical discoveries that began with a solution to the Twin Prime Conjecture. In 2013, Yitang Zhang, Member (2014) in the School of...