What is Yakov Sinai?
[[File:Yakov G Sinai photo.jpg|thumb|Yakov Sinai]] '''Yakov Grigorevich Sinai''' ({{Lang-ru|Я́ков Григо́рьевич Сина́й}}; born September 21, 1935) is a [[Russians|Russian]] [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He is best known for his work on [[dynamical system]]s. He has also worked on [[mathematical physics]] and [[probability theory]]. He won the [[Wolf Prize]] in 1996 and the [[Abel Prize]] in 2014 for his mathematical work.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Chaos-theory pioneer nabs Abel Prize|first=Philip|last=Ball|journal=Nature|url=http://www.nature.com/news/chaos-theory-pioneer-nabs-abel-prize-1.14935|date=March 26, 2014|doi=10.1038/nature.2014.14935|s2cid=123935172|accessdate=April 2, 2014}}</ref> Sinai was born in [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] (now [[Russia]]). He was raised by [[Jewish]] parents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Sinai.html|title=Yakov Grigorevich Sinai|publisher=School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St Andrews|accessdate=April 2, 2014|archive-date=March 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331043719/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Sinai.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was elected a foreign member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Sinai_Yakov |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Sinai_Yakov |title=Yakov G. Sinai|publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category|Yakov Grigorevich Sinai|Yakov Sinai}} * [http://www.abelprize.no/c61094/binfil/download.php?tid=61120 Yakov Sinai] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704175238/http://www.abelprize.no/c61094/binfil/download.php?tid=61120 |date=2014-07-04 }} at the [http://www.abelprize.no/ Abel Prize website] * {{MacTutor Biography|id=Sinai}} * {{MathGenealogy|id=10481}} {{Abel Prize winners}} {{US-biography-stub}} {{authority control}} {{