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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
by johncarlosbaez 7mo ago
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.)
- goodmythical 7mo agoLike RSA?
- ot 7mo agoRSA 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 https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rsapaper.pdf
- zahlman 7mo agoI find it especially strange that two of the authors gave their first name to the algorithm.
- ajkjk 7mo agohttps://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html for the curious (on that version it's item 25 though :o )
- yccs27 7mo agoThe last line of the introduction > By doing so, we aim to provide a novel paradigm [...] also made me think of item 19 on your list: > 10 points for claiming that your work is on the cutting edge of a "paradigm shift". I'm sad though that you didn't call it the "Baez crackpot index"...