# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-sarnak
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:55:06.435Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-sarnak"
name: "Peter Sarnak"
slug: "peter-sarnak"
description: "Peter Clive Sarnak is a South African and American mathematician. Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since 2007. He has also been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Sir Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in analytic number theory. He 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."
tagline: "South African mathematician"
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birthDate: "1953-12-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump