German mathematician Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics, for proving the long-standing Mordell conjecture and laying foundations for major areas of ...

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 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.

A Polish mathematician was left surprised after an AI system solved a problem he had spent 20 years developing.

The glaring problem is more oil from Venezuela—or any other source around the world—represents only metaphorical drops in the global supply bucket compared to the massive losses each day from the ...

AI stuns researchers by solving a 20-year-old mathematical challenge with near-human reasoning, marking a breakthrough in artificial intelligence and raising new questions about the future of human ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform.

The Nigerian government states mathematics is central to national progress, addressing educational challenges and the ...

Kabale University joined the global community in commemorating the International Day of Mathematics, using the occasion to encourage appreciation of mathematics as a source of hope, innovation, and ...

A Polish mathematician spent two decades crafting a problem meant to test the limits of artificial intelligence. A new AI ...