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Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

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

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of ...

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

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

Werner Herzog kicked off Brooklyn Public Library's Pi Day celebrations with a keynote titled “Mathematics and the Sublime.” ...

Abstract: Nonlinear Equations (NEs), which may usually have multiple roots, are ubiquitous in diverse fields. One of the main purposes of solving NEs is to locate as many roots as possible ...

Pi gets a lot of attention this time of year, but there are plenty of other mathematical constants just as deserving of ...

We’ve just had British Pie Week - a glorious celebration of shortcrust and gravy - but today we’re swapping the pastry for ...

Today is Pi Day for 2026, the universal celebration of an amazing, mysterious, and irrational mathematical constant. What's ...

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