Which man received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, Vladimir Levenshtein or Maxim Kontsevich?
Vladimir Levenshtein Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein (Russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Левенште́йн ; ] ; born 1935) is a Russian scientist who has done 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.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Ignatyev Sergey Mikhaylovich Ignatyev (Russian: Серге́й Михайлович Игнатьев ; born January 10, 1948 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Russian economist, banker, and official.