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

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

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 ...