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

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

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 ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.