Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 108, Nos. 5/6, September 2002. p. 721-722.
It is a pleasure and honor to dedicate this issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics to David Ruelle and Yasha Sinai, two of the leading contributors to our subject, as well as to many other fields of science. David and Yasha were both born in 1935, David in Belgium and Yasha in Russia (then the Soviet Union), and their sixty-fifth birthdays were celebrated jointly at the Statistical Mechanics Conference held at Rutgers University in December 2000...