It proved that you could compress data effectively without knowing its statistical properties beforehand. This eventually led to the LZMA algorithm used in 7-Zip , which achieves the high ratios often seen in archives like "Stanislav.7z".

(various authors, notably Vitali Milman).

2. High-Dimensional Geometry & "The Concentration of Measure"

In some advanced mathematics and computer science circles, archives named after Eastern European researchers often contain papers on or Asymptotic Geometric Analysis . A classic "interesting" paper often cited in these collections is: