Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (Russian: Яков Григорьевич Синай; born September 21, 1935) is a mathematician. He has obtained numerous results in the theory of dynamical systems, in mathematical physics and in probability theory. Especially his works on metric theory of dynamical systems (also often called after Kolmogorov the theory of stochasticity of dynamical systems). Sinai has worked on deterministic (dynamical) systems and probabilistic (stochast...
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Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (Russian: Яков Григорьевич Синай; born September 21, 1935) is a mathematician. He has obtained numerous results in the theory of dynamical systems, in mathematical physics and in probability theory. Especially his works on metric theory of dynamical systems (also often called after Kolmogorov the theory of stochasticity of dynamical systems). Sinai has worked on deterministic (dynamical) systems and probabilistic (stochastic) systems. The Moscow Mathematical Journal called Yakov Grigorievich Sinai "one of the greatest mathematician of our days" on his 70th birthday.
Sinai was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia) into a Jewish family that played a prominent role in Russia's scientific and cultural life since the nineteenth century. His grandfather Veniamin Kagan was a Russian geometer, and Sinai's parents were researchers in the medical and biological sciences.
Yakov Sinai received his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1960; his advisor was Andrey Kolmogorov....
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