Plagiarize! (Only be sure always to call it, please, "research".)

By the way, you can thank Nikolai Lobachevsky for developing a non-Euclidean geometry called hyperbolic geometry. Models of the hyperbolic plane are incredibly fun to knit and crochet. Get enough ripples in there and you end up with something that looks very much like a coral reef.

Sorry for all of the links. I was listening to this song and ended up on a wikipedia odyssey because I wanted to know what else Lobachevsky did.