Abstract:
The authors set themselves two main objectives: to characterize the main stages of life of a Lomonosov Moscow State University professor Andrei Borisovich Shydlovsky and give a brief analysis of his scientific and educational activities, which had a significant impact on the development of scientific schools in the field of the theory of transcendental numbers, where he was one of the leading national experts and organizer of international scientific conferences in this area.
Among his students 15 defended their dissertations and three of them later became doctors of physical and mathematical sciences.
Professor Shidlovskii studies on the theory of transcendental numbers are emphasized.
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Keywords:transcendental numbers, $E$-functions, algebraic independence, Lomonosov Moscow State University.