Adelson-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.)

ajkjk 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html for the curious (on that version it's item 25 though :o )

zahlman 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I find it especially strange that two of the authors gave their first name to the algorithm.

Like RSA?

	▲	ot 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		RSA was also not given that name by its authors, the name came later, which is usually the case. In the original paper they do not give it any name: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rsapaper.pdf