Yakov Sinai

Yakov Sinai
Яков Синай
Sinai in 2007
Born
Yakov Grigorevich Sinai

(1935-09-21) September 21, 1935 (age 89)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian / American
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forMeasure-preserving dynamical systems, various works on dynamical systems, mathematical and statistical physics, probability theory, mathematical fluid dynamics
SpouseElena B. Vul
AwardsBoltzmann Medal (1986)
Dannie Heineman Prize (1990)
Dirac Prize (1992)
Wolf Prize (1997)
Nemmers Prize (2002)
Lagrange Prize (2008)
Henri Poincaré Prize (2009)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2009)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2013)
Abel Prize (2014)
Marcel Grossmann Award (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMoscow State University, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University
Doctoral advisorAndrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral studentsLeonid Bunimovich
Nikolai Chernov
Dmitry Dolgopyat
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Anatole Katok
Konstantin Khanin
Grigory Margulis
Valeriy Oseledets
Leonid Polterovich
Marina Ratner
Corinna Ulcigrai

Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (Russian: Я́ков Григо́рьевич Сина́й; born September 21, 1935) is a Russian–American mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems. He contributed to the modern metric theory of dynamical systems and connected the world of deterministic (dynamical) systems with the world of probabilistic (stochastic) systems.[1] He has also worked on mathematical physics and probability theory.[2] His efforts have provided the groundwork for advances in the physical sciences.[1]

Sinai has won several awards, including the Nemmers Prize, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the Abel Prize. He serves as the professor of mathematics at Princeton University since 1993 and holds the position of Senior Researcher at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow, Russia.

  1. ^ a b Ball, Philip (March 26, 2014). "Chaos-theory pioneer nabs Abel Prize". Nature. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Nemmers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).