Which of the following is known for his work on the decidability of algebraic groups: Anatoly Maltsev or Vladimir Levenshtein?
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.
Pierre Samuel Pierre Samuel (12 September 1921 – 23 August 2009) was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. The two-volume work "Commutative Algebra" that he wrote with Oscar Zariski is a classic. Other books of his covered projective geometry and algebraic number theory.