Peter Sarnak
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 71 |
| Date of birth | December 18,1953 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Johannesburg |
| South Africa | |
| Notable students | Kannan Soundararajan |
| Akshay Venkatesh | |
| Job | Professor |
| Mathematician | |
| Physicist | |
| Education | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| Stanford University | |
| Books | Some Applications of Modular Forms |
| The Word and Riemannian Metrics on Lattices of Semisimple Groups | |
| Elementary Number Theory, Group Theory and Ramanujan Graphs | |
| Awards | Ostrowski Prize |
| Wolf Prize in Mathematics | |
| George Pólya Prize | |
| Known for | Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Thesi | Prime geodesic theorems |
| Doctor advisor | Paul Cohen |
| Notable student | Akshay Venkatesh |
| Jacob Tsimerman | |
| Alex V. Kontorovich | |
| Kannan Soundararajan | |
| Academic advisor | Paul Cohen |
| Nationality | American |
| South African | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 615143 |
Peter Sarnak Life story
Peter Clive Sarnak FRS MAE is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since 2007.
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