alt Hacker NewsAdelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis were not the ones who named their tree the "AVL tree".
In my "crackpot index", item 20 says:
20 points for naming something after yourself. (E.g., talking about the "The Evans Field Equation" when your name happens to be Evans.)
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zahlman • today at 2:53 AM
I find it especially strange that two of the authors gave their first name to the algorithm.
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html for the curious (on that version it's item 25 though :o )