WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Science cards · Peter Sarnak
Uncommon card · Science
Peter Sarnak, an Uncommon card
Peter Clive Sarnak is a South African and American mathematician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 44,000
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Peter Sarnak quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Peter Sarnak card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is known for his work in ______ number theory.
Answer
analytic. He is known for his work in analytic number theory. From the Peter Sarnak article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since ____.
Answer
2000s. Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since 2007. From the Peter Sarnak article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Extreme value theorem. Extreme value theorem 66 · Bekenstein bound 61 · Peter Sarnak 58 · Lagoon Nebula 51 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peter Sarnak article was read about 44,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Peter Sarnak
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Peter Sarnak in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Haakon the GoodUncommon · History · ATK 57 DEF 40
- HypromelloseUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 38
- Mariinskyi PalaceUncommon · History · ATK 55 DEF 42
- Stacey AugmonUncommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 34
- BulbUncommon · Nature · ATK 51 DEF 46
- Isabelle DuchesnayUncommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 35
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peter Sarnak (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : VOA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
.jpg){kind=link}