Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year's Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry. By Kenneth Chang A German mathematician, Gerd Faltings, is this year’s winner ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

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 ...