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 ) 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.
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His contribution to the first Soviet database INES which was used ubiquitously in the country brought him the USSR Council of Ministers Prize.