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

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 ...

👉 Learn how to divide with rational powers. To divide with numbers/expressions with rational exponents, we apply the basic rules of exponents. If the two numbers/expressions are the same, we simply ...

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 ...

Learn how to evaluate numbers raised to rational powers. When given a number raised to a rational power, we take the nth root of the number where n is the number in the denominator of the rational ...

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of ...

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 shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is.

Mathematicians just made a big leap forward on one of the field’s all-time favorite problems. Curves—squiggly lines through space, such as a comet’s trajectory or a stock market trend—are some of math ...

The director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics is the first German researcher to receive this prestigious ...