《Lobachevsky》歌词

[00:00:00] For many years now mr danny kaye

[00:00:02] Who has been my particular idol since childbirth

[00:00:04] Has been doing a routine about the great russian director

[00:00:11] Stanislavsky and the secret of success in the actiofession

[00:00:14] And i thought it would be interesting to stea

[00:00:16] To adapt this idea to the field of mathematics

[00:00:19] To there to make explicit

[00:00:22] I always like to make explicit the fact that before

[00:00:24] I went off not too long ago to figh

[00:00:26] The trenches i was a mathematician by profession

[00:00:31] I don't like people to get the idea that

[00:00:33] I have to do this for a living

[00:00:37] I mean it isn't as though i had to do this you know

[00:00:40] I could be making

[00:00:40] Oh 3000 dollars a year just teaching

[00:00:50] Be that as it may

[00:00:51] Some of you may have had occasion to

[00:00:52] Run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore how they got that way

[00:00:56] And here

[00:00:58] In partial explanation perhaps

[00:01:00] Is the story of the great

[00:01:02] Ian mathematician nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky

[00:01:10] Who made me the genius i am today

[00:01:12] The mathematician that others all quote

[00:01:14] Who's the professor that made me that way

[00:01:17] The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat

[00:01:20] One man deserves the credit

[00:01:22] One man deserves the blame

[00:01:24] And nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name

[00:01:26] Hi

[00:01:27] Nicolai ivanovich lobach

[00:01:29] I am never forget the day i first meet the great lobachevsky

[00:01:33] In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics

[00:01:37] Plagiarize

[00:01:39] Plagiarize

[00:01:41] Let no one else's work evade your eyes

[00:01:44] Remember why the good lord made your eyes

[00:01:46] So don't shade your eyes

[00:01:47] But plagiarize plagiarize plagiarize

[00:01:51] Only be sure always to call it please 'research'

[00:01:55] And ever since i meet this man

[00:01:57] My life is not the same

[00:01:58] And nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name

[00:02:01] Hi

[00:02:02] Nicolai ivanovich lobach

[00:02:03] I am never forget the day i am given first original paper

[00:02:07] To write it was on analytic and algebraic topology of

[00:02:11] Locally euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable

[00:02:13] Riemannian manifold

[00:02:14] Bozhe moi

[00:02:17] This i know from nothing

[00:02:20] But i think of great lobachevsky and get idea ahah

[00:02:24] I have a friend in minsk

[00:02:27] Who has a friend in pinsk

[00:02:29] Whose friend in omsk

[00:02:30] Has friend in tomsk

[00:02:31] With friend in akmolinsk

[00:02:32] His friend in alexandrovsk

[00:02:34] Has friend in petropavlovsk

[00:02:36] Whose friend somehow

[00:02:37] Is solving now

[00:02:37] The problem in dnepropetrovsk

[00:02:39] And when his work is done

[00:02:41] Ha ha begins the fun

[00:02:43] From dnepropetrovsk

[00:02:44] To petropavlovsk

[00:02:44] By way of iliysk

[00:02:45] And novorossiysk

[00:02:46] To alexandrovsk to akmolinsk

[00:02:47] To tomsk to omsk

[00:02:48] To pinsk to minsk

[00:02:49] To me the news will run

[00:02:51] Yes to me the news will run

[00:02:54] And then i write

[00:02:58] By morning night

[00:02:59] And afternoon

[00:03:00] And pretty soon

[00:03:01] My name in dnepropetrovsk is cursed

[00:03:03] When he finds out i publish first

[00:03:05] And who made me a big success

[00:03:08] And brought me wealth and fame

[00:03:10] Nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name

[00:03:13] Hi

[00:03:13] Nicolai ivanovich lobach

[00:03:14] I am never forget the day my first book is published

[00:03:19] Every chapter i stole from somewhere else

[00:03:23] Index i copy from old vladivostok telephone directory

[00:03:28] This book

[00:03:29] This book was sensational

[00:03:31] Pravda well pravda pravda said russian double-talk

[00:03:34] It stinks

[00:03:37] But izvestia izvestia said russian double-talk

[00:03:42] It stinks

[00:03:44] Metro goldwyn moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles

[00:03:51] Changing title to 'the eternal triangle'

[00:03:55] With brigitte bardot playing part of hypotenuse

[00:04:00] And who deserves the credit

[00:04:02] And who deserves the blame

[00:04:04] Nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name

[00:04:09] Hi

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