Yakov Sinai

Yakov Grigorevich Sinai is a mathematician, physicist, and university teacher born in Moscow in 1935. He holds citizenship in Russia, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Sinai was educated at the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics and Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has served as an employee of Princeton University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. His areas of work include mathematical physics, probability theory, statistical mechanics, and mathematics.

Sinai is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Abel Prize, the Henri Poincaré Prize, the Boltzmann Medal, and the Marcel Grossmann Award. His notable work includes dynamical billiards. He studied under doctoral advisor Andrey Kolmogorov and has supervised doctoral students including Leonid Bunimovich, Grigory Margulis, and Dmitry Dolgopyat. He also has students Anatole Katok and Konstantin Khanin. Sinai resides in Princeton and speaks Russian and English.