Richard Leibler

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Richard Leibler (March 18, 1914October 25, 2003) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst. While working at the NSA, he and Solomon Kullback formulated the Kullback-Leibler divergence, a measure of similarity between probability distributions which has found important applications in information theory.

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