German Mathematician Wins Abel Prize for Number Theory Work

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

Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize

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 ...
Scientific American

Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel prize at 71

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 ...

NCAA Tournament bracket 2026: The best team on each of the Nos. 1-16 seed lines in March Madness

Picking the best team on each of the 16 seed lines in the 2026 NCAA Tournament ...
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Forget AGI—Top AI Models Still Struggle With Math

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