


Benjamin Collas
857 posts

@BCollasMath
Mathematics researcher at RIMS Kyoto • News of the AHGT France-Japan International Research Network • Arithmetic geometer in many flavours • 驚いた practitioner




We congratulate Gerd Faltings as the 2026 Abel Prize laureate! 🎉 He recives the Abel Prize "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang".





We’re used to tidy narratives of discovery. “Every branch of science needs a hero,” said historian José Ferreirós. “Chemistry has Lavoisier, mechanics has Newton, relativity has Einstein. There’s always this one, only one. But that’s always a lie.” Infinity has Georg Cantor. But it’s not as simple as that. quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-st…








Twelve Coffee Pots by William Kentridge

