Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak
Born
Peter Clive Sarnak

(1953-12-18) 18 December 1953 (age 70)
Johannesburg, South Africa
NationalitySouth Africa[1]
United States[1]
Alma materUniversity of the Witwatersrand (BSc)
Stanford University (PhD)
Known forSystolic geometry
Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant
AwardsGeorge Pólya Prize (1998)
Ostrowski Prize (2001)
Levi L. Conant Prize (2003)
Cole Prize (2005)
Wolf Prize (2014)
Sylvester Medal (2019)
Shaw Prize (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCourant Institute
New York University
Stanford University
Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
ThesisPrime geodesic theorems (1980)
Doctoral advisorPaul Cohen[1][2]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.math.ias.edu/people/faculty/sarnak

Peter Clive Sarnak FRS MAE[3] (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities.[1] Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since 2007.[4] He is also Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Sir Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in analytic number theory.[4] He was member of the Board of Adjudicators and for one period chairman of the selection committee for the Mathematics award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize.

  1. ^ a b c d Sarnak, Peter. "CV February 2012" (PDF).
  2. ^ Peter Sarnak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b "Faculty: School of Mathematics". Institute for Advanced Study. 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2009.