Yuri Nesterenko (mathematician)

Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko 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 [Gamma function|] 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 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.