Abel Prize 2026 - Gerd Faltings
19 March 2026National
Germany's Gerd Faltings won the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry, resolving the Mordell and Lang conjectures. He is the first German Abel laureate; the prize carries 7.5 million Norwegian kroner.
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