Peter Sarnak

Peter Clive Sarnak is a South African and American mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory and differential geometry. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand and took his PhD at Stanford University in 1980 under Paul Cohen. He has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since 2007 and Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Sir Andrew Wiles, and he is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. His work with A. Lubotzky and R. Phillips applied number theory to Ramanujan graphs.