Task: Explanation
Input (English): 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. Question: Which man received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, Vladimir Levenshtein or Maxim Kontsevich? Answer: Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich
Output (English):  Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein algorithm, which he developed in 1965.