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

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

German mathematician Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics, for proving the long-standing Mordell conjecture and laying foundations for major areas of ...

Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen is the Professor of Mathematics for subject teacher training. Her research focuses on transcendental number theory through mathematical analysis. In essence, I’m a number ...

Number Theory is one of the oldest branches of modern mathematics. It is motivated by the study of properties of integers and solutions to equations in integers. Many of its problems can be stated ...