Biography:Andrey Leman

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Short description: Sowjet mathematician (1940–2012)

Andrey Aleksandrovich Leman (Russian: Андрей Александрович Леман, 1940–2012) was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist who is known for the development of the Weisfeiler Leman graph isomorphism test together with Boris Weisfeiler published in 1968.[1] He contributed to the chess computer Kaissa, which was the winner of the world's first chess tournament between computer programs in 1974.[2] In his youth he successfully participated in math Olympiads (Московская математическая олимпиада [ru]) becoming a jury member for the Moscow Mathematical Olympiad[3]:1940 in the 1960s. He also coedited a book for preparation of future olympiad participants.[4] He contributed to the first Soviet database INES which was used ubiquitously in the USSR and for which he received the USSR Council of Ministers Prize.[5] In 1990 he emigrated into the US where he continued to work as a software developer. He contributed to the Cuneiform OCR in the 1990s which was used by notable companies such as Oracle, IBM, and Samsung.

References

  1. Weisfeiler, B. Yu.; Leman, A. A. (1968). "A Reduction of a Graph to a Canonical Form and an Algebra Arising during This Reduction". Nauchno-Technicheskaya Informatsia 2 (9): 12–16. https://www.iti.zcu.cz/wl2018/pdf/wl_paper_translation.pdf. Retrieved 2023-10-28. 
  2. "Kaissa". 2023-09-24. https://www.chessprogramming.org/Kaissa. "Further Authors ... A. Leman" 
  3. Shen, Alexander; Tabachnikov, Serge (December 2022). "Nikolay Konstantinov, 01.02.1932–07.03.2021, a Mathematical Educator Par Excellence". Notices of the American Mathematical Society 69 (11): 1933–1941. doi:10.1090/noti2590. https://community.ams.org/journals/notices/202211/noti2590/noti2590.html?adat=December%202022&trk=2590&galt=none&cat=commentary&pdfissue=202211&pdffile=rnoti-p1933.pdf. Retrieved 2023-10-29. 
  4. Болтянский, Владимир Григорьевич; Леман, Андрей Александрович (1965) (in ru). Сборник задач московских математических олимпиад. Moskva: Изд-во M. Просвещение. https://math.ru/lib/90. 
  5. Sergei, Ivanov (2020-04-21). "A forgotten story of Soviet AI". https://towardsdatascience.com/a-forgotten-story-of-soviet-ai-4af5daaf9cdf. "His contribution to the first Soviet database INES which was used ubiquitously in the country brought him the USSR Council of Ministers Prize." 

External links

  • This page has a photo of him and offers more biographical details. Here is a russian version of this blog.