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 ...

Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges ...

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

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...