Yakov Sinai

Yakov Sinai
Яков Синай
Sinai in 2007
Born	Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (1935-09-21) September 21, 1935 (age 88) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian / American
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Measure-preserving dynamical systems, various works on dynamical systems, mathematical and statistical physics, probability theory, mathematical fluid dynamics
Spouse	Elena B. Vul
Awards	Boltzmann 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
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Moscow State University, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral students	Leonid 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.