An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away from one another. On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the disciplineâs preeminent journa
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