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 ...

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 ...

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

These sensational styles were absolutely golden, just like that iconic trophy.

Chase Infiniti is ending an awards season full of firsts with one of the biggest of her career: her first Academy Awards. See ...