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 ...

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 ...

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

New benchmark study results show leading AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still lag humans in visual math reasoning.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Brainteasers are known as entertainment sources but apart from being a leisure activity, they also serve many benefits. For example, math puzzles help in improving cognitive skills which further ...

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Michael W. Green did some math recently. For a family of four to afford housing, health care, child care and other necessities, he calculated that they would need at least $136,500 a year. The U.S.

Zach D. Berg ’28 is a History and Government concentrator in Adams House. Daniel Zhao ’28 is a Math and Computer Science concentrator in Adams House. Many economists agree that the only thing worse ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...