But if we go back just a century or two ago, just before the Roman inquisition, when Christianity had not come into power yet ...

Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara was awarded this year’s Abel Prize. First awarded in 2003, the Abel prize is often considered to be an equivalent of the Nobel prize, which does not have a ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the ...

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 ...

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

One of the landmarks of Kyoto, the home of mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, is the Kamo River. At certain points, there are stepping stones that allow residents to cross the river away from the ...

This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician whose work has quietly reshaped how we understand some of the ...

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I'm more of a probabilist than anything else, a mathematician. But a statistician would say, "Oh, maximum likelihood, the parameter to fit for that coin flip would be P, the probability of a heads ...