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

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Six-time USA Memory champion Nelson Dellis has memorized hundreds of digits of pi. He has tips for how to improve your memory.

A vulnerability in some MediaTek-powered phones could allow attackers to extract encrypted data, including wallet seed phrases, using only a USB connection.

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

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After US President Donald Trump oversaw the seizure of his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro last month, he vowed to tap the country's oil reserves – the world's largest. Trump now says that he ...

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, but the industry has been starved of investment After US President Donald Trump oversaw the seizure of his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro last ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Investopedia / Matthew Collins A reference number is a unique combination of letters and/or ...

Since the launch of the Crossword in 1942, The Times has captivated solvers by providing engaging word and logic games. In 2014, we introduced the Mini Crossword — followed by Spelling Bee, Letter ...

Thailand says 3 crew missing after ship hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz Twenty crew have been rescued from a Thai ‌ship hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz but three crew remain ...