Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and ...

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

There won't be any red pen marks like your math teacher, but for the first time, the IRS will have to give you a specific line instead of a general "this is wrong." American manufacturer’s hidden tag ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Taxes are all about numbers, and each year, millions of math errors are caught by the IRS. For this tax season, taxpayers will now receive letters from the IRS detailing where they ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Your taxes are all about numbers. And every year, taxpayers make mistakes. They put down the wrong Social Security number, they enter the incorrect bank account numbers, and they ...