<pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ARTIST: Tom Lehrer<br>TITLE: Lobachevsky<br><br><br>Who made me the genius I am today<br>The mathematician that others all quote<br>Who's the professor that made me that way<br>
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat<br><br>One man deserves the credit<br>One man deserves the blame<br>And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, <i>hi!</i><br>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache-<br><br></pre><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word
he told me secret of success in mathematics. Plagiarize!</p><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Plagiarize<br>Let no one else's work evade your eyes<br>Remember why the good Lord made your eyes<br>
So don't shade your eyes<br>But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize<br>Only be sure always to call it please "research"<br><br>And ever since I meet this man<br>My life is not the same<br>And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, <i>hi!</i><br>
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache-<br><br></pre><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It
was on analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrization
of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold. Bozhe moi! This I
know from nothing. What I'm going to do? But I think of great
Lobachevsky and get idea - ahah!</p><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk<br>Whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk<br>With friend in Akmolinsk<br>His friend in Alexandrovsk has friend in Petropavlovsk<br>
Whose friend somehow is solving now<br>The problem in Dnepropetrovsk<br><br>And when his work is done - ha ha! - begins the fun<br>From Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk<br>By way of Iliysk and Novorossiysk<br>To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk<br>
To Tomsk to Omsk to Pinsk to Minsk<br>To me the news will run<br>Yes, to me the news will run<br><br>And then I write, by morning, night<br>And afternoon, and pretty soon<br>My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed<br>When he finds out I publish first<br>
<br>And who made me a big success<br>And brought me wealth and fame<br>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, <i>hi!</i><br>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache-<br><br></pre><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am never forget the day my first book is published. Every chapter I
stole from somewhere else. Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone
directory. This book was sensational! Pravda - well, Pravda said:
perzhnavisk. It stinks. But Izvestia! Izvestia said: parachnavor. It
stinks. Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles,
changing title to "The Eternal Triangle," with Ingrid Bergman playing
part of hypotenuse.</p><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And who deserves the credit<br>And who deserves the blame<br>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, <i>hi!</i><br></pre><br>