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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 102,007 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Levenshtein is the 746th most popular mathematician (down from 679th in 2019), the 1,843rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,567th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 746 out of 823. Before him are Benjamin Robins, William Feller, Dennis Sullivan, Simon Donaldson, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, and Hassler Whitney. After him are Richard Garfield, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Ingrid Daubechies, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, Gregory Chaitin, and Erich Kähler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 356. Before him are Hubert Hahne, Sun Axelsson, Victor Chizhikov, Don McCullin, Don Bragg, and José Ramos Delgado. After him are Usha Mangeshkar, Carlo Facetti, Marco Coll, David Todd Wilkinson, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, and John Patrick Foley. Among people deceased in 2017, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 381. Before him are Marina Ratner, Andrey Zaliznyak, Rob Gonsalves, Terele Pávez, Daniel Viglietti, and Barbara Hale. After him are Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Françoise Héritier, Karl Stotz, Marco Coll, Osvaldo Fattori, and August Ames.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 1,843 out of 3,262. Before him are Boris Lisunov (1898), Albert Razin (1940), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Alexei Mordashov (1965), Pavel Sadyrin (1942), and Orest Khvolson (1852). After him are Yelena Vyalbe (1968), Andrei Bukin (1957), Vyacheslav Starshinov (1940), Vladimir Bogomolov (1924), Max Taut (1884), and Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1971).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Vladimir Levenshtein ranks 52. Before him are Dmitry Grave (1863), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Eugene Dynkin (1924), Anatoly Karatsuba (1937), Pyotr Novikov (1901), and Marina Ratner (1938). After him are Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Dmitri Anosov (1936), Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), and Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922).

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