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

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...

Representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, pi is approximately equal to 3.14159 — but its digits go on forever. In school, you might have used it to calculate the area of a ...

The problem with the “basic math” behind delaying Social Security is that it often overlooks longevity risk.

Math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day every March 14, the date that represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi. Representing the ratio of a circle’s ...

In this video playlist, you will learn everything you need to know about complex and imaginary numbers (8 + i)(7 + 2i).

An international team of researchers shows through a concrete theoretical experiment that the prediction by standard complex quantum theory cannot be expressed by its real counterpart and ratifies its ...

Pi gets a lot of attention this time of year, but there are plenty of other mathematical constants just as deserving of ...

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 ...

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 ...