Yuri Nesterenko

Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko (; 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 and are algebraically independent. In fact, he proved the stronger result: the numbers , and are algebraically independent over the numbers , and are algebraically independent over for all positive integers n, the numbers and are algebraically independent over

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

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

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