The four Fields Medal recipients are, from left, Hong Wang, Jacob Tsimerman, John Pardon and Yu Deng.Credit: Simons Foundation Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang won the 2026 Fields Medal, one of the most coveted awards in their discipline. Their names were revealed today at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)
The Mayan temple of Tikal in Guatemala is about a day’s walk from Xultun, where researchers discovered mathematical formulas scrawled on the walls.Credit: Kryssia Campos/Getty A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Mayan site of Xultún in Guatemala has revealed for the first time the name of an important Mayan mathematician and astronomer.
The top-performing artificial-intelligence model scored 6 out of 10 in the First Proof set of mathematical challenges.Credit: vitacopS/Getty Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet. The results are in, and the AI models that took part didn’t live up to the problem-solving skills of top mathematicians. The test — part of a
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