Yakov sinai biography of nancy

  • Yakov sinai biography of nancy

    • Yakov sinai biography of nancy

  • Yakov sinai biography of nancy pelosi
  • Yakov sinai biography of nancy johnson
  • Jewish fields medal winners
  • Famous jewish scientists

    • Yakov sinai biography of nancy johnson.

    Quick Info

    Born
    21 September 1935
    Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
    Summary
    Yakov Grigorevich Sinai is a Russian mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems.

    In 2014 he was awarded the Abel Prize for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics.

    Biography

    Both of Yakov Grigorevich Sinai's parents, Grigory Sinai and Nadezda Veniaminovna Kagan, were microbiologists with research careers.

    Yakov's mother Nadezda died when he was three years old having been infected by viral encephalitis while working in her own laboratory on making a vaccine. The family had strong mathematical connections since Yakov Grigorevich's grandfather (Nadezda Kagan's father) was Benjamin Fedorovich Kagan, the Head of the Department of Differential Geometry at Moscow State University where he founded an important School of Differential Geometry.

    It is also worth recording that the family was Jewish, and Kagan had a long struggle against anti-Se