[ti:Lobachevsky]
[ar:Tom Lehrer]
[al:My Home Town]
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[00:00.00]Lobachevsky - Tom Lehrer
[00:05.37]Who made me the genius I am today
[00:07.79]The mathematician that others all quote
[00:10.36]Who's the professor that made me that way
[00:12.79]The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat
[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
[00:25.51]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
[00:35.91]Plagiarize
[00:37.75]Let no one else's work evade your eyes
[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"
[00:51.55]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
[01:00.85]I am never forget the day I am given first
[01:03.38]Original paper to write
[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
[01:13.37]This I know from nothing
[01:16.33]But I think of great
[01:17.15]Lobachevsky and get idea ahah
[01:20.06]I have a friend in Minsk
[01:22.61]Who has a friend in Pinsk
[01:24.50]Whose friend in Omsk
[01:25.28]Has friend in Tomsk
[01:26.31]With friend in Akmolinsk
[01:27.98]His friend in Alexandrovsk
[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
[01:46.62]Yes to me the news will run
[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
[01:58.41]When he finds out I publish first
[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
[02:11.34]I am never forget
[02:11.94]The day my first book is published
[02:15.71]Every chapter I stole from somewhere else
[02:19.22]Index I copy from old
[02:20.80]Vladivostok telephone directory
[02:24.57]This book this book was sensational
[02:27.90]Pravda well
[02:29.09]Pravda said: (Russian double-talk)
[02:31.75]It stinks
[02:33.61]But Izvestia Izvestia said: (Russian double-talk)
[02:38.94]It stinks
[02:40.73]Metro Goldwyn Moskva
[02:43.08]Buys movie rights for six million rubles
[02:46.09]Changing title to "The Eternal Triangle "
[02:49.42]With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse
[02:53.67]And who deserves the credit
[02:55.93]And who deserves the blame
[02:57.37]Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name
[03:03.33]Hi