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Peter Sarnak(1953)
MathematicsPeter Clive Sarnak is a South African and American mathematician. Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since 2007. 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.
United States
5
Major Awards
224
Publications
12,164
Citations
57
h-index
113
i10-index
54.3
Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
Most Cited Works
Top publications by citation count#1
A universal lower bound for certain quadratic integrals of automorphic L–functions
Journal of Number Theory(2022)
5
citations
#3
An appreciation of Jean Bourgain’s work
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society(2021)
0
citations
#6
5
citations
#8
Gap sets for the spectra of cubic graphs
Communications of the American Mathematical Society(2020)
23
citations
Recent Publications
View all worksA universal lower bound for certain quadratic integrals of automorphic L–functions
Journal of Number Theory2022
5citations
Open AccessConvergence to the Plancherel measure of Hecke eigenvalues
Acta Arithmetica2022
8citations
Open AccessAn appreciation of Jean Bourgain’s work
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society2021
0citations
Open AccessCommutators in $SL_2$ and Markoff surfaces I
New Zealand Journal of Mathematics2021
5citations
Open AccessRemembering Jean Bourgain (1954–2018)
Notices of the American Mathematical Society2021
3citations
Open Access5citations
Stable polynomials and crystalline measures
Journal of Mathematics and Physics2020
51citations
Open AccessGap sets for the spectra of cubic graphs
Communications of the American Mathematical Society2020
23citations
Open AccessForeword
An Invitation to Modern Number Theory2020
0citations
ON THE WORK OF AKSHAY VENKATESH
International Congress of Mathematicans2019
0citations
External Profiles
Career Path
Award progression over time
Apex Elite Prestigious
Education
Stanford University(Doctor of Philosophy)
University of the Witwatersrand
Doctoral Advisors
Alex EskinHarald HelfgottShin-ya KoyamaWilliam DukeAlex KontorovichSteven J. MillerJacob TsimermanAlexandru ZaharescuGergely HarcosAlexander GamburdAndrew BookerGiuliana DavidoffDmitry JakobsonIsaac EfratVictor DonnayJohn McLaughlinFarrell BrumleyRolf E. LundeliusHala Halim KhuriYiannis Nicolaos PetridisYonatan Rice KatznelsonPatrick ChiuSean Timothy PaulMichael O. RubinsteinStephen David MillerThomas C. WatsonJeffrey M. VanderkamPeter Vincent HegartyJay Alan JorgensonJade P. VinsonEduardo DuenezZhuangzhuang PengMark Eldon McKeeDjordje MilićevićFlorin SpinuAnton KarnaukhLior SilbermanYakov KerzhnerThea PignataroAndrew YangSimon MarshallSteven Franklin ArnoElena FuchsSalim Ali AltugYoungHan ParkJunehyuk JungRyan PecknerNaser Talebizadeh SardariPeter Christopher Leslie HumphriesJunho Peter WhangRuixiang ZhangMatthew de Courcy-IrelandPaul Cohen
Career Timeline
New York University1980–2005
Stanford University1984–1991
Princeton University1991–present
Institute for Advanced Study2007–present
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
JB
Jean Bourgain
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2017)
Andrew Wiles
Copley Medal (2017)
Noga Alon
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2024)
Shing-Tung Yau
Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2023)
VD
Vladimir Drinfeld
Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2023)
GL
George Lusztig
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2022)
Simon Donaldson
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020)
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Alexander Beilinson
Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2020)
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