Education
He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and has worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow ever since.
mathematician computer scientist
He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and has worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow ever since.
Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein algorithm, which he developed in 1965. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society. There is a controversy in regard to the publication date of the paper where the Levenshtein distance was introduced.
The original, Russian, version was published in 1965, but the translation appeared in 1966.