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Vladimir Levenshtein

Russian mathematician (1935-2017) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 82

Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein 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.

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