“Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. Don’t let anything evade your eyes. Just remember please to call it research.”—Tom Lehrer, “Lobachevsky” It’s the only song I know that’s about non-Euclidian geometry. It was actually more or less simultaneous discovery, not plagiarism on Lobachevsky’s part. It was like the Newton-Leibniz war over calculus.
“Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. Don’t let anything evade your eyes. Just remember please to call it research.”—Tom Lehrer, “Lobachevsky” It’s the only song I know that’s about non-Euclidian geometry. It was actually more or less simultaneous discovery, not plagiarism on Lobachevsky’s part. It was like the Newton-Leibniz war over calculus.