Yakov Sinai
Yakov Sinai | |
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Lahir | Yakov Grigorevich Sinai 21 September 1935 Moskow, RSFS Rusia, Uni Soviet |
Tempat tinggal | Princeton, New Jersey, Amerika Serikat |
Kebangsaan | Rusia / Amerika |
Almamater | Moscow State University |
Dikenal atas | Karya mengenai sistem dinamika, matematika dan fisika statistik, teori peluang, dan dinamika fluida |
Suami/istri | Elena B. Vul |
Penghargaan | Boltzmann Medal (1986) Dannie Heineman Prize (1990) Dirac Prize (1992) Wolf Prize (1997) Nemmers Prize (2002) Henri Poincaré Prize (2009) Abel Prize (2014) |
Karier ilmiah | |
Bidang | Matematika |
Institusi | Moscow State University, Princeton University |
Pembimbing doktoral | Andrey Kolmogorov |
Mahasiswa doktoral | Leonid Bunimovich Grigory Margulis Leonid Polterovich Marina Ratner |
Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (bahasa Rusia: Я́ков Григо́рьевич Сина́й; lahir 21 September 1935) adalah seorang matematikawan berkebangsaan Rusia – Amerika Serikat yang dikenal atas pemikirannya mengenai sistem dinamika. Ia bersumbangsih terhadap teori metrik modern sistem dinamika dan mengaitkan bidang deterministik (dinamika) dengan sistem probabilistik (stokastik).[1] Ia juga dikenal atas pemikirannya dalam bidang fisika matematis dan teori peluang.[2] Pemikirannya turut memberikan landasan bagi kemajuan ilmu fisika modern.[1]
Sinai telah menerima sejumlah penghargaan, termasuk Penghargaan Nemmers, Penghargaan Wolf, dan Penghargaan Abel.
Karya[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Introduction to Ergodic Theory. Princeton 1976.[3]
- Topics in Ergodic Theory. Princeton 1977, 1994.[4]
- Probability Theory – an Introductory Course. Springer, 1992.[4]
- Theory of probability and Random Processes (with Koralov). 2nd edition, Springer, 2007.[4]
- Theory of Phase Transitions – Rigorous Results. Pergamon, Oxford 1982.[4]
- Ergodic Theory (with Isaac Kornfeld and Sergei Fomin). Springer, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 1982.[4]
- "What is a Billiard?", Notices AMS 2004.[4]
- "Mathematicians and physicists = Cats and Dogs?" in Bulletin AMS. 2006, vol. 4.[4]
- "How mathematicians and physicists found each other in the theory of dynamical systems and in statistical mechanics", in Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century (editors: Bolibruch, Osipov, & Sinai). Springer 2006, p. 399.[4]
Referensi[sunting | sunting sumber]
- ^ a b Ball, Philip (March 26, 2014). "Chaos-theory pioneer nabs Abel Prize". Nature. Diakses tanggal March 29, 2014.
- ^ "2002 Frederic Esser Nemmers Mathematics Prize Recipient". Northwestern University. Diakses tanggal March 30, 2014.
- ^ Chacon, R. V. (1978). "Review: Introduction to ergodic theory, by Ya. G. Sinai" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (4): 656–660.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Yakov Bibliography" (PDF). Princeton University. Diakses tanggal March 30, 2014.
Pranala luar[sunting | sunting sumber]

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- Sinai on scholarpedia
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. Yakov Sinai di MacTutor archive.
- Yakov Sinai di Mathematics Genealogy Project