2014年9月16日,被誉为“天才奖”的美国麦克阿瑟基金宣布了数学家张益唐获奖的消息,以表彰其于2013年发表在国际著名的《数学年刊》上的论文《质数间的有界距离》.文章部分解决了困扰人们长达2300年之久的数学难题——存在多少对“孪生素数”.很多人认为,孪生素数猜想和哥德巴赫猜想是密切相关的,其证明难度也相仿.而张益唐的文章,则成功地证明了存在无穷多对差值小于7000万的相邻素数,使得孪生素数猜想这个曾经折磨了无数世界顶尖数学家数 On September 16, 2014, the U.S. MacArthur Foundation, acclaimed as the “Genius Award,” announced the award winning mathematician Zhang Yi Tang for his paper entitled “Inter-primes,” published in 2013 in the internationally renowned Mathematical Annals Bounded distance. “The article partially solves the math puzzle that plagues people for as long as 2,300 years - how many pairs exist for” twin primes. "Many people think that the twin prime number conjecture is closely related to Goldbach’s conjecture, The proof of difficulty is also similar, while Zhang Yi Tang’s article successfully proved that there are infinite pairs of adjacent primes with a difference of less than 70 million, making the twin prime number conjecture that once tortured countless world’s top mathematicians