Peter Sarnak Scientist

Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born American 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. He also sits on the Board of Adjudicators and the selection committee for the Mathematics award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize.

Personal facts

Birth date	December 18, 1953
Birth place	Johannesburg , South Africa
Nationality	South Africa United States
Education	Stanford University University of the Witwatersrand
Known for	Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant

Search

Scientist

awards	Levi L. Conant Prize Ostrowski Prize George Pólya Prize Wolf Prize Cole Prize
doctoral advisor	Paul Cohen (mathematician)
doctoral student	Akshay Venkatesh Kannan Soundararajan Alex Eskin Jonathan Pila Jade Vinson William Duke (mathematician)
Field of study	Mathematics
influenced by	Carl Ludwig Siegel Jürgen Moser