Yitang Zhang
description: a Chinese-American mathematician who made a significant breakthrough in number theory, specifically in the theory of prime numbers
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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
by Richard E. Nisbett · 17 Aug 2015 · 397pp · 109,631 words
an obscure mathematician at the University of New Hampshire that claimed a giant leap toward verifying the twin primes conjecture.12 The author was fiftysomething Yitang Zhang, who had spent many years adrift in jobs such as accountant and even Subway employee before he finally got a job at UNH. Mathematics journals