Over the weekend, user @BholanathDutta shared the equation that looked relatively simple to his thousands of followers, until ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.
Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...