Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize0

• SCIENCE
• March 19, 2026

Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize for his work on proving that Diophantine equations can have a finite set of solutions.Credit: Peter Badge/Typos1/The Abel Prize 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