doctoral_advisor work_institution birth_place px|caption nationality article_title doctoral_students name field birth_date known_for residence prizes image spouse birth_name alma_mater
andrey kolmogorov moscow , princeton university state university , landau institute for theoretical physics moscow , russian sfsr , soviet union yakov g. sinai russian / american yakov sinai
 leonid katok grigory margulis leonid polterovich marina ratner corinna ulcigrai bunimovich nikolai chernov dmitry dolgopyat svetlana jitomirskaya anatole yakov sinai mathematics 21 september 1935 works , probability theory , mathematical fluid dynamics on dynamical systems , mathematical and statistical physics princeton , new jersey , united states boltzmann 1990 -rrb- dirac prize -lrb- 1992 -rrb- wolf prize -lrb- medal 1997 -rrb- nemmers prize -lrb- 2002 -rrb- lagrange prize -lrb- -lrb- 2008 -rrb- henri poincaré prize -lrb- 2009 -rrb- foreign member 1986 of the royal society -lrb- 2009 -rrb- leroy p. steele -rrb- prize -lrb- 2013 -rrb- abel prize -lrb- 2014 -rrb- dannie heineman prize -lrb- yakov g sinai photo.jpg elena b. vul yakov grigorevich sinai moscow state university
yakov sinai

yakov grigorevich sinai -lrb- ; born september 21 , 1935 -rrb- is a mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems .
he contributed to the modern metric theory of dynamical systems and connected the world of deterministic -lrb- dynamical -rrb- systems with the world of probabilistic -lrb- stochastic -rrb- systems .
he has also worked on mathematical physics and probability theory .
his efforts have provided the groundwork for advances in the physical sciences .
sinai has won several awards , including the nemmers prize , the wolf prize in mathematics and the abel prize .
