Yitang Zhang

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Chinese-born American mathematician

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According to Wikipedia, Yitang Zhang is a Chinese American mathematician primarily working on number theory and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2015. Previously working at the University of New Hampshire as a lecturer, Zhang submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics in 2013 which established the first finite bound on the least gap between consecutive primes that is attained infinitely often. This work led to a 2013 Ostrowski Prize, a 2014 Cole Prize, a 2014 Rolf Schock Prize, and a 2014 MacArthur award. Zhang became a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in fall 2015.

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