University of the Witwatersrand (BSc) Stanford University (PhD)
Known for
Systolic geometry Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant
Awards
George Pólya Prize (1998) Ostrowski Prize (2001) Levi L. Conant Prize (2003) Cole Prize (2005) Wolf Prize (2014) Sylvester Medal (2019)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Courant Institute New York University Stanford University Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis
Prime geodesic theorems(1980)
Doctoral advisor
Paul Cohen[1][2]
Doctoral students
Andrew Booker
Giuliana Davidoff
William Duke
Alex Eskin
Harald Helfgott
Steven J. Miller
Jonathan Pila
Kannan Soundararajan
Jacob Tsimerman
Akshay Venkatesh
Alexandru Zaharescu
Website
www.math.ias.edu/people/faculty/sarnak
Peter Clive SarnakFRS 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 also sits on the Board of Adjudicators and the selection committee for the Mathematics award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize.
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Peter Clive Sarnak FRS MAE (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. Sarnak has...
Association. Akshay commenced his PhD at Princeton University in 1998 under PeterSarnak, which he completed in 2002, producing the thesis Limiting forms of the...
Princeton University in 2003 under the direction of Henryk Iwaniec and PeterSarnak, with the thesis Root numbers and the parity problem. Helfgott was a...
by Charles Loewner and developed by Mikhail Gromov, Michael Freedman, PeterSarnak, Mikhail Katz, Larry Guth, and others, in its arithmetical, ergodic,...
Theory", The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Volume 14, Number 3, Sept. 2008. Sarnak, Peter (December 2007). "Remembering Paul Cohen" (PDF). MAA Focus. 27 (9)....
With PeterSarnak: Random Matrices, Frobenius Eigenvalues, and Monodromy. AMS Colloquium publications 1998, ISBN 0821810170. With PeterSarnak: "Zeroes...
Before the proof had been formally refereed and published, mathematician PeterSarnak called the proof "stunningly simple" and wrote that "You just start reading...
involving only the Möbius function, and the way it self-correlates. PeterSarnak made a conjecture on the non-correlation of the Möbius function with...
theory Survey paper by M. Ram Murty Alexander Lubotzky; Ralph Phillips; PeterSarnak (1988). "Ramanujan graphs". Combinatorica. 8 (3): 261–277. doi:10.1007/BF02126799...
Mathematisch Instituut 2006: Jean-Pierre Serre of Collège de France 2005: PeterSarnak of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton...
educator; Yves Landry Award for Outstanding Innovation in Education, Canada PeterSarnak, Princeton's Eugene Higgins professor of mathematics, specialising in...
Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics in 2005. PeterSarnak of Princeton University has said of Bhargava: At mathematics he's at...
math. He obtained his PhD from Princeton in 2011 under the guidance of PeterSarnak. Jacob Tsimerman was born in Kazan, Russia, on April 26, 1988. In 1990...
University in 1995 and did his Ph.D under the guidance of Professor PeterSarnak. After his Ph.D. he received the first five-year fellowship from the...
University in 2017. At Princeton, Zhang worked under the supervision of PeterSarnak; his doctoral dissertation was Perturbed Brascamp-Lieb inequalities and...
doctorate from Princeton University in 1993, under the supervision of PeterSarnak. Eskin has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1999....
ISBN 9781470411022. Tao, Terence (15 October 2012). "The Chowla conjecture and the Sarnak conjecture". What's new. Ferenczi, Sébastien; Kułaga-Przymus, Joanna; Lemańczyk...
with Hofer being a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and PeterSarnak also being a professor there as a second affiliation). The journal is...
political economist 2013 2015 Marshall N. Rosenbluth physicist 1967 1982 PeterSarnak mathematician 2007 current Sabine Schmidtke historian 2014 current Joan...
Taylor for several outstanding advances in algebraic number theory 2005 PeterSarnak for his fundamental contributions to number theory 2008 Manjul Bharğava...
Ken Ribet (born 1948), algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry PeterSarnak (born 1953), analytic number theory; Pólya Prize (1998), Cole Prize (2005)...
Israel Prize, Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow PeterSarnak, Wolf Prize Jack Schwartz, who developed the programming language SETL...
Patrick Deane, Vice-Chancellor and President, McMaster University, Canada PeterSarnak, awarded the Wolf Prize 2014, Honorary doctorate 2014: University of...
Donaldson, Mikhail Gromov, Larry Guth, Boáz Klartag, Leonid Polterovich, and PeterSarnak. Geometric analysis [1], Geometric and Functional Analysis. Vitali D...
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