Talk:Lobachevsky (song)

This article was nominated for deletion on 27 October 2016. The result of the discussion was keep.

A slanderous song ?[edit]

Most people would never had heard of Lobachevsky if it had not been for this song. So the only thing they know, or think they know, about him is that he plagiarized which is quite unfair as he never did. JFB80 (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I added a sentence, plagiarized from Lobachevsky's biography here, making clear that Lehrer did not actually refer to any historical incident of plagiarism on Lobachevsky's part. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:43, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

He made not have said so specifically but people will understand it in the obvious way. (I put a question mark in the title to leave the answer open)JFB80 (talk) 10:55, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Non-Euclidean geometry[edit]

I've heard it said (and it seems obvious to me) that one reason Lobachevsky is the target of this song is because he and János Bolyai made the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry in parallel. I tried to make an edit to that effect, but it was reverted on the very reasonable grounds that it made it sound like Lobachevsky really was a plagiarist. Is there a way we can explain this part of the joke without creating that implication? ciphergoth (talk) 21:50, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Only if you have a published reliable source making that connection. "I've heard it said" is an inadequate basis for adding content for a Wikipedia article, and "it seems obvious to me" even less of an adequate basis. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:54, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]