Wang Hong, a 35-year-old Chinese mathematician at New York University, has taken two of mathematics' most prestigious prizes ...

When Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska received a Fields Medal—widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for mathematics—in July 2022, it was big news. Not only was she the second woman to accept the ...

At 71, retired German mathematician Gerd Faltings was lured to a colleague's office at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn last week for what he was told was a routine meeting. Instead, a ...