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发帖数: 905 | 1 Sarnak Awarded Wolf Prize
Peter Sarnak has been awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. A
mathematician of extremely broad spectrum and far-reaching vision, Sarnak
has influenced the development of several mathematical fields, often by
uncovering deep and unsuspected connections. "By his insights and his
readiness to share ideas he has inspired the work of students and fellow
researchers in many areas of mathematics," the Wolf Foundation said. Sarnak
is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and
is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He received
his PhD in 1980 under the direction of Paul Cohen. In 2003, Sarnak and his
co-author Nicholas Katz received the AMS Conant Prize for their article "
Zeroes of zeta functions and symmetry", Bulletin of the AMS 36 1-26 (1999).
Sarnak also received the AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2005, for his
fundamental contributions to number theory and in particular his book Random
Matrices, Frobenius Eigenvalues and Monodromy, written jointly with Katz.
Sarnak's expository article "What is an expander?", AMS Notices, August 2004
, gives a flavor of his mathematical outlook. A brief description of Sarnak'
s work appears on the Wolf Foundation web site.
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