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, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

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

A team led by Professor Daniel Abrams and PhD graduate Emma Zajdela (PhD ’23) created—and mined—the most comprehensive ...

Fashion insiders and beauty magazines have long cited the "20-year-rule"—the idea that clothing trends often resurface every two decades. According to Northwestern University scientists, that ...

Science in meter and verse ...