Counting from Infinity Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)

In April 2013 a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics Within weeks word spread a littleknown mathematician with no permanent job working in complete isolation had made an important breakthrough toward solving the Twin Prime Conjecture Yitang Zhangs techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid progress by the Polymath Group and a further innovation by James Maynard