The 2014 Abel Prize

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2014 to Yakov G. Sinai of Princeton University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences for “his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics”.

Sinai is best known for his works finding strong links between dynamical systems (deterministic) and stochastic systems (probabilistic).

Link
The Abel Prize website.