What is "levenstein"

Levenstein, Levenshtein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Jim Levenstein, a fictional character in the American Pie film series
• Vladimir Levenshtein (born 1935), Russian scientist
  • Levenshtein distance, a metric for comparing two strings or words
  • Levenshtein coding, a binary number coding
• Yechezkel Levenstein, Mashgiach in the Yeshivas Mir and in Ponovezh, known as Reb Chatzkel