This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

“It was hurtful,” Leo says, “but it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know. I was already pretty defeated when it came ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Bessie Blount Griffin's work supporting veterans wounded in WWII led her to two remarkable inventions.

A British Columbia mathematician who was deemed a vexatious litigant by a judge for initiating numerous legal actions without ...