Yitang Zhang
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Yitang Zhang (Chinese: 张益唐; born February 5, 1955)[3] is a Chinese-American mathematician primarily working on number theory and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2015.[4]
Yitang Zhang | |
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Born | (1955-02-05) February 5, 1955 (age 69) Shanghai, China |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Peking University (BS, MA) Purdue University (PhD) |
Known for | Establishing the existence of an infinitely repeatable prime 2-tuple[1] |
Awards | Ostrowski Prize (2013) Cole Prize (2014) Rolf Schock Prize (2014) MacArthur Fellowship (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Number theory |
Institutions | University of New Hampshire University of California, Santa Barbara |
Thesis | The Jacobian conjecture and the degree of field extension (1992) |
Doctoral advisor | Tzuong-Tsieng Moh (莫宗堅)[2] |
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 Fellowship. Zhang became a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in fall 2015.[5][6][7][8]