The mathematical crimes of the Young Sherlock Holmes series

Warning this article contains spoilers about the new Amazon Prime series Young Sherlock. I’ve read the whole Sherlock Holmes canon multiple times over. I love how Holmes uses an ...
Nature

Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize

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

Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Bell-Bottoms Today, Miniskirts Tomorrow

A team led by Professor Daniel Abrams and PhD graduate Emma Zajdela (PhD ’23) created—and mined—the most comprehensive ...
Decrypt

Forget AGI—Top AI Models Still Struggle With Math

New benchmark study results show leading AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still lag humans in visual math ...