27/05/2026
What more can you ask, now?!
Thank you, Timandra Harkness for being brilliantly clever with us and for us. Thanks for communicating mathematics and thanks for a great interview yesterday, just after the Abel Prize award ceremony. And thanks to Gerd Faltings for being a sport in the middle of it all.
Gerd Faltings has been interviewed a lot so far and there is still more to come as the science journalists are queuing up to get mere minutes with the Abel Prize Laureate 2026. Where ever Gerd Faltings go, the podcasters, writers and youtubers follow.
Science depends on brilliance. But science also depends on translation, on people who can take difficult ideas from the blackboards and place them into a shared public conversation.
The Academy works closely with The World Federation of Science Journalists and contribute to travel grants for The Abel Prize Week. In return, independent journalist gives us their views and stories.
Scholars might find journalists, podcasters and YouTubers intimidating. The best science journalism is, however, curious, demanding, and occasionally uncomfortable.
In a time when misinformation travels faster than peer review, science journalists help create something extraordinarily valuable: public trust as well as critical thinking.
Most people discover science not through scientific journals but through a newspaper article read over breakfast or a radio segment in the car.
So thank to all our science journalists here today for our thoughtful work that suddenly makes a difficult idea understandable.
Photographers:
Eirik Furu Baardsen / DNVA
Unni Irmelin Kvam / DNVA
Derek Stothers / Liwlig AS
Ilja C. Hendel / The Abel Prize
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
Liwlig Norway
