数学
大海捞针: 张益唐与孪生素数猜想 (2015) 豆瓣
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
9.3 (17 个评分) 导演: George Paul Csicsery 演员: 张益唐 / 陶哲轩
其它标题: 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 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-Daniel Goldston, Kannan Soundararajan, Andrew Granville, Peter Sarnak, Enrico Bombieri, James Maynard, Nicholas Katz, David Eisenbud, Ken Ribet, and Terry Tao.
2015年11月22日 看过
朴实无华但信息量丰富的纪录片,倒是很符合张益唐的风格((假如没有导师那一茬他的生活也许不会这么清苦,不过相信他的学术精神都始终如一。深感敬佩。(以及他和他老婆的关系怎么这么奇怪...)
2015 数学 纪录片 美国