Doctoral advisor Paul Cohen Name Peter Sarnak | Role Mathematician Fields Mathematics | |
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Born 18 December 1953 (age 70)
Johannesburg, South Africa ( 1953-12-18 ) Nationality South Africa
United States Institutions Courant Institute, New York University
Stanford University
Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study Alma mater Stanford University
University of the Witwatersrand Doctoral students William Duke
Alex Eskin
Jacob Tsimerman
Jonathan Pila
Kannan Soundararajan
Akshay Venkatesh
Jade Vinson Known for Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant Education University of the Witwatersrand, Stanford University Awards Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Ostrowski Prize Influenced by Carl Ludwig Siegel, Jurgen Moser Notable students Kannan Soundararajan, Akshay Venkatesh, Harald Helfgott Similar People Henryk Iwaniec, Kannan Soundararajan, Akshay Venkatesh, Paul Cohen, Harald Helfgott | ||
Peter sarnak randomness in number theory mahler lectures 2011
Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. 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. He is known for his work in analytic number theory. Sarnak is also on the permanent faculty at the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study. 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 sarnak randomness in number theory mahler lectures 2011
- The solovay kitaev theorem and golden gates peter sarnak june 10 2015
- Education
- Career
- Awards and honours
- Publications
- References
The solovay kitaev theorem and golden gates peter sarnak june 10 2015
Education
Sarnak graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand (BSc 1975, BSc(Hons) 1976) and Stanford University (PhD 1980), under the direction of Paul Cohen. Sarnak's highly cited work (with A. Lubotzky and R. Philips) applied deep results in number theory to Ramanujan graphs, with connections to combinatorics and computer science.
Career
Awards and honours
Peter 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, the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2005 and a Lester R. Ford Award in 2012. He is the recipient of the 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. The University of the Witwatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate on Professor Peter Sarnak on 2 July 2014 for his distinguished contribution to the field of mathematics.
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. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago in 2015.
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