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

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

Carnival has ended. The music has faded. And as an old refrain reminds us: fete over, back to work. That line is not a moral lecture. It is arithmetic. Once the celebrations are done, the country ...

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