Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko

Yuri Nesterenko at the workshop "Diophantic Approximations" in Oberwolfach, 2007

Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko (Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Нестере́нко; born December 5, 1946 in Kharkiv, USSR now Ukraine) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician who has written papers in algebraic independence theory and transcendental number theory.

In 1997 he was awarded the Ostrowski Prize for his proof that the numbers π and e^π are algebraically independent. In fact, he proved the stronger result:

• the numbers π, e^π, and Γ(1/4) are algebraically independent over Q.
• the numbers π, $e^{\pi\sqrt{3}}$, and Γ(1/3) are algebraically independent over Q.
• for all positive integers n, the numbers π, $e^{\pi\sqrt{n}}$ are algebraically independent over Q.

He is a professor at Moscow State University, where he completed the mechanical-mathematical program in 1969, then the doctorate program (Soviet habilitation) in 1973, became a professor of the Number Theory Department in 1992.

He studied under Andrei Borisovich Shidlovskii. Nesterenko's students have included Wadim Zudilin.

Publications

• Nesterenko, Y. (1996). "Modular Functions and Transcendence Problems". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Série I. Mathématique 322 (10): 909–914.

External links

• Ostrowski Foundation (August 1998). "Nesterenko and Pisier Share Ostrowski Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS.
• A picture
• Web page at Moscow State University (Russian); switch to Windows-1251 encoding if your browser does not render correctly.
• Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko at the Mathematics Genealogy Project