Contact Information
449 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Description
Number theory
Education
PhD, Princeton University, 1995
Awards and Honors
Fellow, American Mathematical Society, 2017
Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 2004-05; 2013-14
LAS Dean's Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2010
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Mathematics
External Links
Recent Publications
Anderson, J., Woodall, A., & Zaharescu, A. (2026). ARITHMETIC SQUARES. Integers, 26, Article A1. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18153890
Basak, D., Berndt, B. C., & Zaharescu, A. (Accepted/In press). DISTRIBUTIONS ASSOCIATED TO SMALL QUADRATIC NON-RESIDUES AND THEIR PARTITIONS. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.4153/S0008414X26102296
Basak, D., Robles, N., & Zaharescu, A. (2026). Exponential sums over Möbius convolutions with applications to partitions. Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 78(2), 508-543. https://doi.org/10.4153/S0008414X24000701
Basak, D., Thorner, J., & Zaharescu, A. (2026). Remarks on Landau–Siegel zeros. Algebra and Number Theory, 20(1), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2026.20.209
Berndt, B. C., Bhat, R., Meyer, J. L., Xie, L., & Zaharescu, A. (2026). An Arithmetic Sum Associated with the Classical Theta Function. Results in Mathematics, 81(1), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-025-02584-2