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, ...
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 ...
Fashion insiders and beauty magazines have long cited the "20-year-rule"—the idea that clothing trends often resurface every two decades. According to Northwestern University scientists, that ...
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The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.