Richard Leibler

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Richard Leibler (March 18, 1914, Chicago, Illinois–October 25, 2003, Reston, Virginia) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst. Richard Leibler was born in March 1914. He received his A.M. in mathematics from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1939. 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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Biography on the NSA Hall of Honor.

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Name	Leibler, Richard
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Short description	American cryptographer
Date of birth	1914
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Date of death	2003
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