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 ...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2026 Abel Prize to Gerd Faltings, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and professor emeritus at the ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry. By Kenneth Chang A German mathematician, Gerd Faltings, is this year’s winner ...

The director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics is the first German researcher to receive this prestigious mathematics prize First German award winner: Gerd Faltings, director ...

Portrait of Gerd Faltings. Image credits: Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is ...

At 71, retired German mathematician Gerd Faltings was lured to a colleague's office at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn last week for what he was told was a routine meeting. Instead, a ...