Peter Sarnak
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Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953, Johannesburg) is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002 and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics.
Education: University of Witwatersrand (BSc 1975); Stanford University (PhD 1980, under the direction of Paul Cohen).
[edit] Career
- Assistant Professor, 1980-83, Associate Professor, 1983-84, 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; Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1999-2002, Princeton University.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002.
[edit] Publications
- Some Applications of Modular Forms, 1990
- (joint author) Extremal Riemann Surfaces, 1997
- (joint editor) Random Matrices, Frobenius Eigenvalues and Monodromy, 1998
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