Some Moments in the Life of Antanas Laurinˇcikas: the Search for Universality

Abstract

This article is dedicated to Lithuanian number theorist Professor Antanas Laurinˇcikas on
the occasion of his 70th birthday. We sketch the main stages in the development of his scientific
career. Although A. Laurinˇcikas started with probabilistic number theory, later on he became
one of the leading world scientists in the theory of zeta-functions, especially concerning their
universality. In the review we give a brief account of his pre-university life and the development
of his career as a mathematician from the time he entered Vilnius University. We review some
results of Antanas starting with early ones and then higlight the main results. At the end a list
of scientific publications of A. Laurinˇcikas is presented.