Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71

The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of special points on a curve

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German mathematician Faltings wins the 2026 Abel prize for solving a 60-year-old mystery.

Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel prize of mathematics.

Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his groundbreaking 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture.

His contributions helped establish one of the most important fields in modern mathematics, arithmetic geometry.

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German mathematician Faltings wins the 2026 Abel prize for solving a 60-year-old mystery.

Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel prize of mathematics. Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his groundbreaking 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture. His …

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Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2,000-year-old problem of curves

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves

Scientific American
Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2,000-year-old problem of curves

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves

Scientific American