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 ...

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Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

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

Over the weekend, user @BholanathDutta shared the equation that looked relatively simple to his thousands of followers, until ...

To understand why, the team looked at the MRI scans.

In office less than two months, Mayor Mamdani is already taking Gotham back to the bad old days of Funny Money. In a move reminiscent of the 1970s fiscal crisis, Mamdani declared last week that the ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Pro does better at solving sophisticated math problems than older versions of the company’s top large language model, according to a new study by Epoch AI, a non-profit research ...