MATHEMATICIAN

Vladimir Levenshtein

1935 - 2017

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Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein (Russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Левенште́йн, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɨˈosʲɪfəvʲɪtɕ lʲɪvʲɪnˈʂtʲejn] ; 20 May 1935 – 6 September 2017) was a Russian and Soviet scientist who did research in information theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial design. Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein algorithm, which he developed in 1965. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow ever since. He was a fellow of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Levenshtein is the 711th most popular mathematician (up from 758th in 2019), the 1,592nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,881st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 711 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacobus Golius, Gladys West, Claude Chevalley, Federigo Enriques, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, and Axel Thue. After him are Sofya Yanovskaya, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, Jacques Tits, Alexander Ostrowski, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, and Carl Neumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 304. Before him are Victor J. Stenger, Heinz Schneiter, Jiří Čadek, Mario Bellini, Géza Alföldy, and Milkha Singh. After him are José María Gil-Robles, Omero Antonutti, Gary Peacock, Henry Gibson, Michel Subor, and Milorad Milutinović. Among people deceased in 2017, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 329. Before him are Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Carlos Alberto Silva, Chiquito de la Calzada, Darlene Cates, Brad Harris, and Lola Albright. After him are Jaki Liebezeit, Kito Lorenc, Timo Mäkinen, Nicky Hayden, Abdur Rahman Biswas, and Jaak Panksepp.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 1,592 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Senyavin (1763), Johannes Bobrowski (1917), Aleksey Remizov (1877), Herman of Alaska (1756), Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875), and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947). After him are Andrei Tchmil (1963), Sergei Mavrodi (1955), Pyotr Gavrilov (1900), Igor Larionov (1960), Nikolai Gastello (1907), and Mikhail Pugovkin (1923).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 43. Before him are Efim Zelmanov (1955), Jürgen Moser (1928), Alexander Gelfond (1906), Dmitri Egorov (1869), Aleksey Krylov (1863), and Svetlana Gannushkina (1942). After him are Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Carl Neumann (1832), Eugene Dynkin (1924), Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), and Maxim Kontsevich (1964).

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