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.
Zenon Ivanovich Borevich Zenon Ivanovich Borevich Зенон Иванович Боревич (7 November 1922 – 26 February 1995) was a Russian mathematician who worked on homological algebra, algebraic number theory, integral representations, and linear groups.