Lobachevsky-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Lobachevsky (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:Tom Lehrer Sings, Vol. 2 (Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.54]For many years now mr danny kaye [00:02.35]Who has been my particular idol since childbirth [00:04.13] [00:04.66]Has been doing a routine about the great russian director [00:11.14]Stanislavsky and the secret of success in the actiofession [00:13.76] [00:14.51]And i thought it would be interesting to stea [00:16.21]To adapt this idea to the field of mathematics [00:18.40] [00:19.38]To there to make explicit [00:21.35] [00:22.06]I always like to make explicit the fact that before [00:24.56]I went off not too long ago to figh [00:26.84]The trenches i was a mathematician by profession [00:30.99] [00:31.83]I don't like people to get the idea that [00:33.80]I have to do this for a living [00:35.31] [00:37.35]I mean it isn't as though i had to do this you know [00:39.99]I could be making [00:40.62]Oh 3000 dollars a year just teaching [00:42.87] [00:50.21]Be that as it may [00:51.04]Some of you may have had occasion to [00:52.35]Run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore how they got that way [00:55.44] [00:56.15]And here [00:56.65] [00:58.94]In partial explanation perhaps [01:00.89]Is the story of the great [01:02.00]Ian mathematician nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky [01:04.66] [01:09.95]Who made me the genius i am today [01:11.57] [01:12.25]The mathematician that others all quote [01:13.88] [01:14.77]Who's the professor that made me that way [01:16.49] [01:17.27]The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat [01:19.31] [01:20.13]One man deserves the credit [01:22.39]One man deserves the blame [01:23.97]And nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name [01:26.81]Hi [01:27.34]Nicolai ivanovich lobach [01:28.78] [01:29.59]I am never forget the day i first meet the great lobachevsky [01:32.85] [01:33.76]In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics [01:36.37] [01:37.43]Plagiarize [01:38.13] [01:39.53]Plagiarize [01:40.43] [01:41.32]Let no one else's work evade your eyes [01:43.56] [01:44.38]Remember why the good lord made your eyes [01:46.41]So don't shade your eyes [01:47.87]But plagiarize plagiarize plagiarize [01:51.26]Only be sure always to call it please 'research' [01:53.59] [01:55.25]And ever since i meet this man [01:57.24]My life is not the same [01:58.80]And nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name [02:01.37]Hi [02:01.97]Nicolai ivanovich lobach [02:03.75]I am never forget the day i am given first original paper [02:07.08]To write it was on analytic and algebraic topology of [02:11.04]Locally euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable [02:13.87]Riemannian manifold [02:14.45]Bozhe moi [02:15.41] [02:17.18]This i know from nothing [02:19.66] [02:20.80]But i think of great lobachevsky and get idea ahah [02:24.17] [02:24.93]I have a friend in minsk [02:26.78] [02:27.38]Who has a friend in pinsk [02:29.30]Whose friend in omsk [02:30.32]Has friend in tomsk [02:31.16]With friend in akmolinsk [02:32.22] [02:32.85]His friend in alexandrovsk [02:34.45]Has friend in petropavlovsk [02:36.06]Whose friend somehow [02:37.06]Is solving now [02:37.89]The problem in dnepropetrovsk [02:39.59]And when his work is done [02:41.47]Ha ha begins the fun [02:43.20]From dnepropetrovsk [02:44.19]To petropavlovsk [02:44.93]By way of iliysk [02:45.60]And novorossiysk [02:46.44]To alexandrovsk to akmolinsk [02:47.62]To tomsk to omsk [02:48.50]To pinsk to minsk [02:49.41]To me the news will run [02:51.33]Yes to me the news will run [02:53.62] [02:54.27]And then i write [02:57.99]By morning night [02:59.33]And afternoon [03:00.24]And pretty soon [03:01.14]My name in dnepropetrovsk is cursed [03:02.62] [03:03.47]When he finds out i publish first [03:05.02] [03:05.88]And who made me a big success [03:08.61]And brought me wealth and fame [03:10.20]Nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name [03:13.01]Hi [03:13.48]Nicolai ivanovich lobach [03:14.82]I am never forget the day my first book is published [03:18.78] [03:19.92]Every chapter i stole from somewhere else [03:21.95] [03:23.33]Index i copy from old vladivostok telephone directory [03:26.15] [03:28.80]This book [03:29.42]This book was sensational [03:30.42] [03:31.01]Pravda well pravda pravda said russian double-talk [03:34.62]It stinks [03:35.64] [03:37.81]But izvestia izvestia said russian double-talk [03:41.69] [03:42.47]It stinks [03:42.94] [03:44.84]Metro goldwyn moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles [03:50.15] [03:50.99]Changing title to 'the eternal triangle' [03:53.35] [03:55.56]With brigitte bardot playing part of hypotenuse [03:59.15] [04:00.67]And who deserves the credit [04:02.40]And who deserves the blame [04:03.49] [04:04.17]Nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name [04:06.56] [04:09.93]Hi [04:10.51]Lobachevsky (Live) - Tom Lehrer