[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