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A comment on Yitang “Tom” Zhang and fame in mathematics.

Re:Yitang “Tom” Zhang and fame in mathematics by mherrmann on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:55PM (#13287805)
There's an interesting 1-hour-long documentary about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIyKWxGhEA
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Re:Yitang “Tom” Zhang and fame in mathematics by mherrmann on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:56PM (#13288245)
Follow-up video where Terence Tao explains in very simple terms the history of the problem(s) and how people improved on Zhang's 70,000,000 constant afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp06oGD4m00
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