Zhang Yitang

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Zhang Yitang is a Chinese-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work on bounded gaps between prime numbers, which significantly advanced number theory.

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Zhang Yitang canonical 2
Yitang 1
张益唐 1

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instanceOf human
mathematician
number theorist
academicDegree Bachelor’s degree in mathematics
PhD in mathematics
awardReceived Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory
Huaxia Achievement Award
MacArthur Fellowship
Ostrowski Prize
Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award
Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics
linked to: Rolf Schock Prizes

Simons Investigator Award
birthCountry China
birthDate 1955-02-05
birthPlace Shanghai
citizenship China
United States of America
countryOfResidence United States of America
doctoralAdvisor T. T. Moh
educatedAt Peking University
Purdue University
employer University of New Hampshire
ethnicGroup Han Chinese
familyName Zhang
fieldOfWork analytic number theory
number theory
gender male
givenName Yitang
linked to: Zhang Yitang
influenced Polymath8 project
linked to: Polymath Project
inspiredWork subsequent improvements on prime gap bounds
knownFor bounded gaps between primes
work on the distribution of prime numbers
languageSpoken English
Mandarin Chinese
name Zhang Yitang
nativeName 张益唐
linked to: Zhang Yitang
notableAchievement proved existence of infinitely many pairs of primes with bounded gaps
notableConcept bounded prime gaps
notableWork Bounded gaps between primes
occupation mathematician
positionHeld lecturer at University of New Hampshire
professor at University of New Hampshire
publishedIn Annals of Mathematics
residence New Hampshire
yearOfNotableResult 2013

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Zhang Yitang name Zhang Yitang
Zhang Yitang givenName Yitang
linked to: Zhang Yitang
Zhang Yitang nativeName 张益唐
linked to: Zhang Yitang