Lobachevsky-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Lobachevsky] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:My Home Town] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lobachevsky - Tom Lehrer [00:05.37]Who made me the genius I am today [00:06.85] [00:07.79]The mathematician that others all quote [00:09.38] [00:10.36]Who's the professor that made me that way [00:11.94] [00:12.79]The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat [00:14.70] [00:15.90]One man deserves the credit [00:18.22]One man deserves the blame [00:19.77]And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [00:22.36]Hi [00:22.84]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach [00:24.34] [00:25.51]I am never forget the day I first meet the great [00:28.38]Lobachevsky In one word [00:30.73]He told me secret of success in [00:32.17]Mathematics: Plagiarize [00:34.38] [00:35.91]Plagiarize [00:36.86] [00:37.75]Let no one else's work evade your eyes [00:39.94] [00:40.80]Remember why the good Lord made your eyes [00:43.02]So don't shade your eyes [00:44.47]But plagiarize plagiarize plagiarize [00:47.53]Only be sure always to call it please "research" [00:49.84] [00:51.55]And ever since I meet this man [00:53.42]My life is not the same [00:55.17]And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [00:57.98]Hi [00:58.39]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach [00:59.68] [01:00.85]I am never forget the day I am given first [01:03.38]Original paper to write [01:04.36] [01:05.68]It was on analytic and algebraic [01:06.91]Topology of locally Euclidean parameterization of [01:09.22]Infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold [01:11.39]Bozhe moi [01:12.20] [01:13.37]This I know from nothing [01:15.31] [01:16.33]But I think of great [01:17.15]Lobachevsky and get idea ahah [01:19.03] [01:20.06]I have a friend in Minsk [01:21.97] [01:22.61]Who has a friend in Pinsk [01:23.94] [01:24.50]Whose friend in Omsk [01:25.28]Has friend in Tomsk [01:26.31]With friend in Akmolinsk [01:27.41] [01:27.98]His friend in Alexandrovsk [01:29.21] [01:29.72]Has friend in Petropavlovsk [01:31.25]Whose friend somehow [01:31.93]Is solving now [01:32.82]The problem in Dnepropetrovsk [01:34.35]And when his work is done [01:36.41]Ha ha begins the fun [01:38.05]From Dnepropetrovsk [01:39.01]To Petropavlovsk [01:39.81]By way of Iliysk [01:40.78]And Novorossiysk [01:41.37]To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk [01:42.11]To Tomsk to Omsk [01:43.31]To Pinsk to Minsk [01:44.53]To me the news will run [01:46.03] [01:46.62]Yes to me the news will run [01:49.04] [01:49.95]And then I write [01:52.77]By morning night [01:54.24]And afternoon [01:55.08]And pretty soon [01:56.08]My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed [01:57.80] [01:58.41]When he finds out I publish first [02:00.24] [02:01.14]And who made me a big success [02:03.32]And brought me wealth and fame [02:05.12]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [02:07.80]Hi [02:08.44]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach [02:10.01] [02:11.34]I am never forget [02:11.94]The day my first book is published [02:13.88] [02:15.71]Every chapter I stole from somewhere else [02:17.47] [02:19.22]Index I copy from old [02:20.80]Vladivostok telephone directory [02:22.14] [02:24.57]This book this book was sensational [02:27.17] [02:27.90]Pravda well [02:29.09]Pravda said: (Russian double-talk) [02:30.98] [02:31.75]It stinks [02:32.35] [02:33.61]But Izvestia Izvestia said: (Russian double-talk) [02:38.94]It stinks [02:39.47] [02:40.73]Metro Goldwyn Moskva [02:42.03] [02:43.08]Buys movie rights for six million rubles [02:45.16] [02:46.09]Changing title to "The Eternal Triangle " [02:48.26] [02:49.42]With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse [02:52.64] [02:53.67]And who deserves the credit [02:55.93]And who deserves the blame [02:56.86] [02:57.37]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [03:01.09] [03:03.33]Hi