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Vladimir Levenshtein

Russian mathematician (1935–2017)

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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.

He received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2006, for "contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and information theory, including the Levenshtein distance".

Life

Levenshtein graduated from Moscow State University in 1958, where he studied in the faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. He was a member of the student Komsomol organization and was in charge of university preparations for the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students.

After graduation, he worked at the M.V Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics.

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