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 ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

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 ...

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, asked Columbia to turn over incoming first-year students’ math course placement scores by Thursday ...