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

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

This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...