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Peter Sarnak

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Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. [1]

51 relations: Akshay Venkatesh, Alex Eskin, Alexander Lubotzky, Alexandru Zaharescu, American Mathematical Society, Analytic number theory, Andrew Wiles, Annals of Mathematics, Atle Selberg, Bachelor of Science, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Cole Prize, Combinatorics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Computer science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Creative Commons license, Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society, George Pólya Prize, Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant, Harald Helfgott, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Study, Jacob Tsimerman, Jürgen Moser, Johannesburg, Jonathan Pila, Kannan Soundararajan, L-function, Levi L. Conant Prize, Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, New York University, Number theory, Ostrowski Prize, Paul Cohen, Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award, Princeton University, Ralph S. Phillips, Ramanujan graph, Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture, Rankin–Selberg method, Shaw Prize, Stanford University, Steven J. Miller, University of Chicago, University of the Witwatersrand, William Duke (mathematician), Wolf Prize, ..., Wolf Prize in Mathematics. Expand index (1 more) »

Akshay Venkatesh

Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician.

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Alex Eskin

Alex Eskin (born May 19, 1965) is an American mathematician.

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Alexander Lubotzky

Professor Alexander Lubotzky (אלכסנדר לובוצקי, born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and former politician who is currently a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an adjunct professor at Yale University.

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Alexandru Zaharescu

Alexandru Zaharescu (born June 4, 1961) is a Romanian mathematician.

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American Mathematical Society

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.

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Analytic number theory

In mathematics, analytic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis to solve problems about the integers.

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Andrew Wiles

Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory.

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Annals of Mathematics

The Annals of Mathematics is a bimonthly mathematical journal published by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Atle Selberg

Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (Latin Baccalaureus Scientiae, B.S., BS, B.Sc., BSc, or B.Sc; or, less commonly, S.B., SB, or Sc.B., from the equivalent Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years, or a person holding such a degree.

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Carl Ludwig Siegel

Carl Ludwig Siegel (December 31, 1896 – April 4, 1981) was a German mathematician specialising in number theory and celestial mechanics.

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Cole Prize

The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory.

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Combinatorics

Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures.

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Communications in Mathematical Physics

Communications in Mathematical Physics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) is an independent division of New York University (NYU) under the Faculty of Arts & Science that serves as a center for research and advanced training in computer science and mathematics.

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Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.

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Fellow

A fellow is a member of a group (or fellowship) that work together in pursuing mutual knowledge or practice.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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George Pólya Prize

The George Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant

The Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant is a mathematical constant representing the probability that the determinants of two randomly chosen square integer matrices will be relatively prime.

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Harald Helfgott

Harald Andrés Helfgott (born November 25, 1977) is a Peruvian mathematician born in Lima.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, Ha-Universita ha-Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim; الجامعة العبرية في القدس, Al-Jami'ah al-Ibriyyah fi al-Quds; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second oldest university, established in 1918, 30 years before the establishment of the State of Israel.

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Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld.

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Jacob Tsimerman

Jacob Tsimerman (born 1988) is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in number theory and related areas.

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Jürgen Moser

Jürgen Kurt Moser (July 4, 1928 – December 17, 1999) was an award-winning, German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Jonathan Pila

Jonathan Solomon Pila (born 1962) FRS One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is an Australian mathematician at the University of Oxford.

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Kannan Soundararajan

Kannan Soundararajan is a mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

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L-function

In mathematics, an L-function is a meromorphic function on the complex plane, associated to one out of several categories of mathematical objects.

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Levi L. Conant Prize

The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding expository papers published in the Bulletin of the AMS or the Notices of the AMS in the past five years.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Number theory

Number theory, or in older usage arithmetic, is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers.

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Ostrowski Prize

The Ostrowski Prize is a mathematics award given every odd year for outstanding mathematical achievement judged by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands.

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Paul Cohen

Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician.

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Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award

The Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (formerly known as the Lester R. Ford Award) is a $1,000 prize given annually by the Mathematical Association of America for authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Ralph S. Phillips

Ralph Saul Phillips (23 June 1913 – 23 November 1998) was an American mathematician and academic known for his contributions to functional analysis, scattering theory, and servomechanisms.

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Ramanujan graph

In spectral graph theory, a Ramanujan graph, named after Srinivasa Ramanujan, is a regular graph whose spectral gap is almost as large as possible (see extremal graph theory).

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Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture

In mathematics, the Ramanujan conjecture, due to, states that Ramanujan's tau function given by the Fourier coefficients of the cusp form of weight where q.

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Rankin–Selberg method

In mathematics, the Rankin–Selberg method, introduced by and, also known as the theory of integral representations of ''L''-functions, is a technique for directly constructing and analytically continuing several important examples of automorphic ''L''-functions.

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Shaw Prize

The Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Steven J. Miller

Steven Joel Miller is a mathematician who specializes in analytic number theory and has also worked in applied fields such as sabermetrics and linear programming.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of the Witwatersrand

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg.

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William Duke (mathematician)

William Drexel Duke (born 1958) is an American mathematician specializing in number theory.

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Wolf Prize

The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people...

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Wolf Prize in Mathematics

The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.

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