Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution with fewer pieces is impossible. Their result was posted to the server ...

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

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems.