Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein was a Russian and Soviet scientist, born in 1935 and died in 2017, who did research in information theory, error-correcting codes and combinatorial design. 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 from then on. In 2006 he received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.
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named after Soviet mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein, who introduced it in 1965
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named after Soviet mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein, who introduced it in 1965
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