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

Gerd Faltings, Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, has become the first German to receive the Abel Prize, having previously been awarded the Fields Medal.

The director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics is the first German researcher to receive this prestigious mathematics prize ...

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...

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

This editorial has been updated from the print version to reflect the final status of bills that died after our print deadline for the Saturday edition. Before a ...

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya argues that accelerating AI disruption could compress equity valuations across entire ...

As transaction costs remain opaque and misaligned, the next wave of real estate tech is being shaped by pricing clarity and fairer economic models.

The explosion of Kalshi and Polymarket meant Oscar gambling and interest skyrocketed, but these weren’t the healthy ...

Long before skeptics with labs, a scholar dismissed holy artifacts as clerical tricks.

Fox News and Pete Hegseth are aligning on a new Iran war pitch centered on American deaths—but the core claim driving it doesn’t hold up. The post Pete Hegseth and Fox News Align on New Iran War ...