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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Levenshtein has received more than 111,591 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vladimir Levenshtein is the 758th most popular mathematician (down from 743rd in 2019), the 1,881st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,839th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 758 out of 1,004. Before him are Spiru Haret, Gladys West, Kenkichi Iwasawa, Giuseppe Vitali, Joseph-Alfred Serret, and Solomon W. Golomb. After him are Johann Faulhaber, Svetlana Gannushkina, Sulochana Gadgil, Jacques-Louis Lions, Rudy Rucker, and Carl Størmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 356. Before him are Nancy Kovack, Vicente Lucas, Ivo Trumbić, Željko Matuš, Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, and Peer Hultberg. After him are Sherrill Milnes, Jed Allan, Yuri Titov, Usha Mangeshkar, David Todd Wilkinson, and Mal Evans. Among people deceased in 2017, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 368. Before him are István Mészáros, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Dina Merrill, Rodrigo Valdez, Attilio Nicora, and Joseph Bologna. After him are Mark Fisher, Curt Lowens, Fernando Birri, Rose Marie, Liam Cosgrave, and Barbara Hale.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 1,881 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergey Oldenburg (1863), David Keilin (1887), Andrey Petrov (1930), Ivan Perestiani (1870), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), and Olga Morozova (1949). After him are Boris Grigoriev (1886), Viktor Kosichkin (1938), Nikolay Latyshev (1913), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Valentin Muratov (1928), and Matvey Kazakov (1738).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 49. Before him are Dmitry Grave (1863), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), and Anatoly Maltsev (1909). After him are Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929), Pyotr Novikov (1901), Eugene Dynkin (1924), Marina Ratner (1938), and Vladimir Voevodsky (1966).

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