Technology (2000). Buslaev always searched for original analytically rich problems, for which the ways to solve them and the results of investigation were difficult to predict. Like the old masters, he liked to work with formulas, and, for him, the way to general constructions of a theory was through the analysis of nontrivial specific problems. From his point of view, this way of thinking was a distinguishing feature of the St. Petersburg mathematical school. Vladimir Buslaev himself possessed a rare talent for working this way.A professor who had just begun to teach when Buslaev was a third-year student recalls that "Vladimir Buslaev was a brilliant student". He continues: "The work of an educator can lead to a professional deformation: if a teacher thinks that he is much better than the students, he is at risk for developing a 'superiority' complex which, as any other complex, is a bad thing. The third-year student Vladimir Buslaev quickly liquidated my complex. This is how it happened. According to the curriculum, we were discussing 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 35-00.