Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis ...

This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician ... Kashiwara has shown the world that sometimes, the simplest ...

rarely observed in the real world but small, short-lived and uncommon, as Caffarelli’s equations confirmed. “He is one of the most deserving mathematicians alive today and one of the best ...

while Simone was concerned with how the world can be soul-crushing. Both wrestled with the best way to teach math. Their insights and contradictions point to the fundamental role that mathematics ...