[johncarlosbaez]

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]

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

[yccs27]

The 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"...

[zahlman]

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

[goodmythical]

Like RSA?

[ot]

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