A mathematician analyzed 150 years of women’s fashion to understand 20-year trend cycles, and how “optimal distinctiveness” dives change.

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

How Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform deploys asset specificity, software lock-in, and two decades of developer infrastructure to build a structural competitive advantage that chip benchmarks alone cannot ...

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 ...

Let’s say you somehow manage to sleep through all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness and wake up ...

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.

A team led by Professor Daniel Abrams and PhD graduate Emma Zajdela (PhD ’23) created—and mined—the most comprehensive ...

Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an emerging technology that assists in various automated activities where human involvement is minimal. Though individual UAVs are extremely useful entities, ...

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The enthusiasm for California’s free preschool program for 4-year-olds is tempered by concerns that its benefits may fade ...