12 Facts About Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak is Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Sir Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics.

Peter Sarnak is known for his work in analytic number theory.

Peter Sarnak was member of the Board of Adjudicators and for one period chairman of the selection committee for the Mathematics award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize.

Peter Sarnak is the grandson of one of Johannesburg's rabbis and lived in Israel for three years as a child.

Peter Sarnak is recognised as one of the leading analytic number theorists of his generation.

Peter Sarnak was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1990 in Kyoto and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 1998 in Berlin.

Peter Sarnak has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991.

Peter Sarnak was elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002.

Peter Sarnak became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008.

Peter Sarnak was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010.

Peter Sarnak was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago in 2015 and by Stockholm University in 2023.

Peter Sarnak was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.