Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko
# Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko

Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko (Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Нестере́нко; born 5 December 1946 in Kharkov, 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. 322 (10): 909–914.
