Evgenii Landis

Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis (Russian: Евге́ний Миха́йлович Ла́ндис, Yevgeny Mikhaylovich Landis; 6 October 1921 – 12 December 1997) was a Soviet mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential equations.

Landis was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

He studied and worked at the Moscow State University, where his advisor was Alexander Kronrod, and later Ivan Petrovsky.

In 1946, together with Kronrod, he rediscovered Sard's lemma, unknown in USSR at the time.

With Georgy Adelson-Velsky, he invented the AVL tree data structure (where "AVL" stands for Adelson-Velsky Landis).