[mlazos]

I remember when one of my professors told me how AVL trees were invented by mathematicians in the Soviet Union. It was in a paper titled “An algorithm for organizing information”. It was a side project for them, and it’s humbling to hear how simple the idea was to geniuses.

[rramadass]

Hey, that's a neat fact! I did know that AVL stood for "Adelson-Velskii and Landis" but not that they were Soviet-era Mathematicians.