Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today. Kashiwara is known for building bridges across seemingly distant branches ...

Raffaelo Maggiotti, a student of Galileo, first described it in writing in 1648. “Cartesian” is a term that may come from the last name of René Descartes, who was a French scientist, mathematician, ...

“He’s still revolutionising the field even now, I would say.” The Abel prize, named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, is awarded each year by the King of Norway. Last ...