Peter Wilcox Jones (born 1952) is a mathematician at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, known for his work in harmonic analysis and

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. He received his Ph.D. at the

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in 1978, under the supervision of John B. Garnett. He received the Salem Prize in 1981. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2008), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2008), and the

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(1998). He is not related to the mathematician Vaughan Jones.

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