Some moments in the life of Antanas Laurinčikas: the search for universality

This article is dedicated to Lithuanian number theorist Professor Antanas Laurinčikas on the occasion of his 70th birthday. We sketch the main stages in the development of his scientific career. Although A. Laurinčikas 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. Laurinčikas is presented.