Lev Kontsevich | |
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Born | Lev Rafailovich Kontsevich 3 September 1930 |
Nationality | Russian |
Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Korean studies, Oriental studies |
Institutions | Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Lev Rafailovich Kontsevich (Russian: Лев Рафаилович Концевич, Korean: 레프 라파일로비치 콘체비치, born 3 September 1930) is a Soviet-Russian orientalist and Candidate of Sciences, who created the Kontsevich system, the one of cyrillization system for the Korean language and currently the main system of transcribing and transliterating Korean words into the Cyrillic alphabet. He is also the father of mathematician Maxim Kontsevich.[1]