The
February 2 edition of The New Yorker includes the
piece "The Pursuit of Beauty," on Yitang "Tom" Zhang. Zhang, a
part-time calculus instructor at the University of New Hampshire, solved an
old problem on prime numbers and won fame and a MacArthur award.
After finishing his doctorate at Purdue in 1991, Zhang spent some time in
Lexington involved with a Chinese democracy group and keeping books for a local
restaurant.
The
following quote is on page 23 of the magazine:
"When
Zhang wasn't working, he would go to the library at the University of Kentucky
and read journals in algebraic geometry and number theory."
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