Yakov Pesin

Yakov Pesin is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is director of the Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the European Academy (Academia Europea), a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and an editor of the journal Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. He received his PhD in mathematics from Gorky State University in 1979. He has (co)authored six books covering smooth dynamics, ergodic theory, dimension theory, and fractal geometry, and a dozen surveys on these topics.