Peter Badge / Typos1 / The Abel Prize. This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki ...

Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis ...

Mathematics is an increasingly central part of our world and an immensely fascinating realm of thought. But long before the development of the math that gave us computers, quantum mechanics, and ...

Note: For a definition of unfamiliar terms, see our glossary. The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the "letters ...

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 ...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said Wednesday that this year’s Abel Prize for mathematicians with distinguished ...