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 ...

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 ...

Let’s say you somehow manage to sleep through all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness and wake up ...

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

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Many people who try using AI are disappointed with the results and feel they can’t trust a machine – but are there lessons we ...

A 17-year-old student recently amazed millions of people worldwide by ranking 12th in the preliminary round of a global math competition, despite being up against formidable rivals from top ...