Lobachevsky-Tom Lehrer/Celeste Holm

[ti:Lobachevsky] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:The Very Best of Tom Lehrer, Victor Borge and Flanders and Swann. The Kings of Comedy: 3 Hours of Non-Stop Laughter from the 50's] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lobachevsky - Tom Lehrer/Celeste Holm [00:05.68]Who made me the genius I am today [00:07.50] [00:08.57]The mathematician that others all quote [00:09.98] [00:11.39]Who's the professor that made me that way [00:13.24] [00:14.08]The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat [00:16.00] [00:17.29]One man deserves the credit [00:19.20]One man deserves the blame [00:20.20] [00:20.76]And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [00:23.37]Hi [00:23.91]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach [00:24.86] [00:26.03]I am never forget the day I first meet the great [00:29.20]Lobachevsky In one word he told me secret of success in [00:33.71]Mathematics: Plagiarize [00:35.36] [00:37.32]Plagiarize [00:37.44] [00:39.11]Let no one else's work evade your eyes [00:40.62] [00:42.07]Remember why the good Lord made your eyes [00:44.08]So don't shade your eyes [00:45.53]But plagiarize plagiarize plagiarize [00:47.39] [00:47.92]Only be sure always to call it please "research" [00:50.44] [00:51.99]And ever since I meet this man [00:53.55]My life is not the same [00:54.85]And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [00:57.34]Hi [00:57.89]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach [00:59.12] [01:00.44]I am never forget the day I am given first [01:02.94]Original paper to write It was on analytic and algebraic [01:06.86]Topology of locally Euclidean parameterization of [01:09.68]Infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold [01:11.23]Bozhe moi [01:11.91] [01:13.19]This I know from nothing But I'm going to do [01:19.45] [01:20.17]I think of great [01:20.88]Lobachevsky and get idea - ahah [01:22.54] [01:23.33]I have a friend in Minsk [01:25.42] [01:26.57]Who has a friend in Pinsk [01:27.89] [01:28.61]Whose friend in Omsk [01:29.27]Has friend in Tomsk [01:29.97]With friend in Akmolinsk [01:31.77] [01:32.33]His friend in Alexandrovsk [01:33.07] [01:33.98]Has friend in Petropavlovsk [01:34.98] [01:35.71]Whose friend somehow [01:36.45]Is solving now [01:37.12]The problem in Dnepropetrovsk [01:38.14] [01:39.46]And when his work is done [01:41.39]Ha ha begins the fun [01:42.63] [01:43.15]From Dnepropetrovsk [01:43.68]To Petropavlovsk [01:44.41]By way of Iliysk [01:45.24]And Novorossiysk [01:45.76]To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk [01:46.93]To Tomsk to Omsk [01:48.31]To Pinsk to Minsk [01:49.55]To me the news will run [01:50.92] [01:51.67]Yes to me the news will run [01:53.66] [01:55.18]And then I write [01:58.16]By morning night [01:59.39]And afternoon [02:00.09]And pretty soon [02:01.08]My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed [02:03.37] [02:03.95]When he finds out I publish first [02:05.22] [02:06.78]And who made me a big success [02:09.56]And brought me wealth and fame [02:11.05]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [02:13.44]Hi [02:14.06]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach [02:15.45] [02:16.63]I am never forget the day my first book is published [02:19.86] [02:21.38]Every chapter I stole from somewhere else [02:23.64] [02:25.00]Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory [02:27.57] [02:29.64]This book was sensational [02:30.42] [02:31.99]Pravda well Pravda Pravda said: (Russian double-talk) [02:35.63]It stinks [02:36.93]But Izvestia Izvestia said: (Russian double-talk) [02:39.49] [02:41.87]It stinks [02:42.31] [02:43.04]Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles [02:46.99] [02:48.45]Changing title to "The Eternal Triangle " [02:50.37] [02:51.68]With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse [02:53.69] [02:55.69]And who deserves the credit [02:57.62]And who deserves the blame [02:58.52] [02:59.29]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name [03:01.86] [03:04.75]Hi