The Abel Prize, the ‘Nobel Prize’ of mathematics, has been awarded to Gerd Faltings for his work on Diophantine equations
The German mathematician Gerd Faltings has won the Abel Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Faltings, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, became a celebrity at the age of 29 for proving a conjecture that earned him the Fields Medal in 1986. His contributions have revolutionised arithmetic geometry, a branch of mathematics at the intersection of the two oldest: number theory and geometry.
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