diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6bc4acd608..2f7ef32f59 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Changes
     - bigram construction can now support multiple bigrams within one sentence
 * Fixed issue #838, RuntimeWarning: overflow encountered in exp  (@markroxor, [#895](https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim/pull/895))
 *  Changed some log messages to warnings as suggested in issue #828. (@rhnvrm, [#884](https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim/pull/884))
+*  Fixed issue #851, In summarizer.py, RunTimeError is raised if single sentence input is provided to avoid ZeroDivionError. (@metalaman, #887)
 
 
 0.13.2, 2016-08-19
diff --git a/gensim/summarization/summarizer.py b/gensim/summarization/summarizer.py
index 234dcec377..0779011999 100644
--- a/gensim/summarization/summarizer.py
+++ b/gensim/summarization/summarizer.py
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ def summarize_corpus(corpus, ratio=0.2):
     _set_graph_edge_weights(graph)
     _remove_unreachable_nodes(graph)
 
+    # Cannot calculate eigenvectors if number of unique words in text < 3. Warns user to add more text. The function ends.
+    if len(graph.nodes()) < 3:
+        logger.warning("Please add more sentences to the text. The number of reachable nodes is below 3")
+        return
+
     pagerank_scores = _pagerank(graph)
 
     hashable_corpus.sort(key=lambda doc: pagerank_scores.get(doc, 0), reverse=True)
@@ -193,6 +198,10 @@ def summarize(text, ratio=0.2, word_count=None, split=False):
         logger.warning("Input text is empty.")
         return
 
+    # If only one sentence is present, the function raises an error (Avoids ZeroDivisionError). 
+    if len(sentences) == 1:
+        raise ValueError("input must have more than one sentence")
+    
     # Warns if the text is too short.
     if len(sentences) < INPUT_MIN_LENGTH:
         logger.warning("Input text is expected to have at least " + str(INPUT_MIN_LENGTH) + " sentences.")
diff --git a/gensim/test/test_data/testlowdistinctwords.txt b/gensim/test/test_data/testlowdistinctwords.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70e20fa3d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gensim/test/test_data/testlowdistinctwords.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+here here.
+there there. 
+here here.
+there there.
+here here.
+there there.
+here here.
+there there.
+here here.
+there there.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gensim/test/test_summarization.py b/gensim/test/test_summarization.py
index fde845dc93..bd215efcab 100644
--- a/gensim/test/test_summarization.py
+++ b/gensim/test/test_summarization.py
@@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ def test_text_summarization_raises_exception_on_short_input_text(self):
         text = "\n".join(text.split('\n')[:8])
 
         self.assertTrue(summarize(text) is not None)
+        
+    def test_text_summarization_returns_input_on_single_input_sentence(self):
+        pre_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'test_data')
+
+        with utils.smart_open(os.path.join(pre_path, "testsummarization_unrelated.txt"), mode="r") as f:
+            text = f.read()
+
+        # Keeps the first sentence only.
+        text = text.split('\n')[0]
+
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError,summarize,text)
 
     def test_corpus_summarization_raises_exception_on_short_input_text(self):
         pre_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'test_data')
@@ -160,6 +171,20 @@ def test_keywords_runs(self):
         kwds_lst = keywords(text, split=True)
         self.assertTrue(len(kwds_lst))
 
+    def test_low_distinct_words_corpus_summarization_is_none(self):
+        pre_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'test_data')
+
+        with utils.smart_open(os.path.join(pre_path, "testlowdistinctwords.txt"), mode="r") as f:
+            text = f.read()
+
+        # Generate the corpus.
+        sentences = text.split("\n")
+        tokens = [sentence.split() for sentence in sentences]
+        dictionary = Dictionary(tokens)
+        corpus = [dictionary.doc2bow(sentence_tokens) for sentence_tokens in tokens]
+
+        self.assertTrue(summarize_corpus(corpus) is None)
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s : %(levelname)s : %(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG)
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/gensim/test/test_wikicorpus.py b/gensim/test/test_wikicorpus.py
index 77c4212831..7ac953d847 100644
--- a/gensim/test/test_wikicorpus.py
+++ b/gensim/test/test_wikicorpus.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import types
+import logging
 import unittest
 
 from gensim.corpora.wikicorpus import WikiCorpus
@@ -21,16 +22,18 @@
 datapath = lambda fname: os.path.join(module_path, 'test_data', fname)
 FILENAME = 'enwiki-latest-pages-articles1.xml-p000000010p000030302-shortened.bz2'
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 class TestWikiCorpus(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
         wc = WikiCorpus(datapath(FILENAME))
 
-
     def test_get_texts_returns_generator_of_lists(self):
+        logger.debug("Current Python Version is "+str(sys.version_info))
         if sys.version_info < (2, 7, 0):
             return
+        
         wc = WikiCorpus(datapath(FILENAME))
         l = wc.get_texts()
         self.assertEqual(type(l), types.GeneratorType)