Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak
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Born	18 December 1953 (1953-12-18) Johannesburg
Nationality	South Africa
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Courant Institute, New York University Stanford University Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater	Stanford University University of the Witwatersrand
Doctoral advisor	Paul Cohen
Doctoral students	William Duke Alex Eskin Jonathan Pila Kannan Soundararajan Akshay Venkatesh Jade Vinson
Known for	Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant
Influences	Carl Ludwig Siegel Juergen Moser

Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. Sarnak is also on the permanent faculty at the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Education

Sarnak graduated University of the Witwatersrand (B.Sc. 1975) and Stanford University (Ph.D. 1980), under the direction of Paul Cohen.

Career

• Assistant Professor, 1980–83; Associate Professor, 1983; Professor, 2001–2005, Courant Institute, New York University
• Associate Professor, 1984–87; Professor, 1987–91, Stanford University
• Professor, 1991–; H. Fine Professor, 1995–96; Chairman, Dept of Mathematics, 1996–99; Eugene Higgins Professor, 2002–, Princeton University

• Member, 1999–2002 and 2005–2007; Faculty, 2007–, Institute for Advanced Study

Awards and honors

Sarnak was awarded the Polya Prize of Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics in 1998, the Ostrowski Prize in 2001, the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2003 and the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2005. He was also elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) in 2002. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010.

Publications

• Some Applications of Modular Forms, 1990
• (joint editor) Extremal Riemann Surfaces, 1997
• (joint author) Random Matrices, Frobenius Eigenvalues and Monodromy, 1998
• (joint editor) Selected Works of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Collected Works), 2000
• (joint author) Elementary Number Theory, Group Theory and Ramanujan Graphs, 2003
• (joint editor) Selected Papers Volume I-Peter Lax, 2005
• (joint editor) Automorphic Forms and Applications, 2007

See also

• Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant

External links

• Peter Sarnak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Online CV
  • Preprints, Letters, Lectures, Notes.