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Peter Sarnak

1953 - Today

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Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Sarnak has received more than 223,511 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Peter Sarnak is the 958th most popular mathematician (down from 868th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 202nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular South African Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Peter Sarnak ranks 958 out of 1,004. Before him are Henry John Stephen Smith, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Peter Scholze, Marcus du Sautoy, Frank Adams, and Fan Chung. After him are Nigel Hitchin, Dusa McDuff, Simon Singh, Béla Bollobás, Harald Helfgott, and Krystyna Kuperberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Peter Sarnak ranks 598. Before him are Bernard Tchoullouyan, Cleavant Derricks, Željko Reiner, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Amy Hill, and Janusz Wójcik. After him are Marillyn Hewson, Helmut Roleder, Salman Khurshid, Tor Ulven, Suleiman Nyambui, and Moushumi Chatterjee.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Peter Sarnak ranks 238 out of 454. Before him are Hans Vonk (1970), Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri (1937), Kevin Anderson (1986), Aaron Mokoena (1980), Jerome Damon (1972), and Penelope Coelen (1940). After him are Renée Schuurman (1939), John Langalibalele Dube (1871), Antony Sher (1949), Jodi Balfour (1987), Margaret Gardiner (1959), and Naledi Pandor (1953).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In South Africa

Among mathematicians born in South Africa, Peter Sarnak ranks 4. Before him are Seymour Papert (1928), Claude Chevalley (1909), and Richard Borcherds (1959). After him are Stanley Skewes (1899).

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