Leonid Levin

Leonid Anatolievich Levin (/leɪ.oʊˈniːd ˈlɛvɪn/ lay-oh-NEED LEV-in; Russian: Леони́д Анато́льевич Ле́вин; Ukrainian: Леоні́д Анато́лійович Ле́він; born November 2, 1948) is a Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist. Levin was awarded the Knuth Prize in 2012 for his discovery of NP-completeness and the development of average-case complexity. His life is described in a chapter of the book Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists.

Leonid Levin

Leonid Anatolievich Levin (/leɪ.oʊˈniːd ˈlɛvɪn/ lay-oh-NEED LEV-in; Russian: Леони́д Анато́льевич Ле́вин; Ukrainian: Леоні́д Анато́лійович Ле́він; born November 2, 1948) is a Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist. Levin was awarded the Knuth Prize in 2012 for his discovery of NP-completeness and the development of average-case complexity. His life is described in a chapter of the book Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists.