Story Behind the Song
Linear algebra can inspire a person to do many different things.
Lyrics
I am a little happy man,
who has recently found out
That in the world of mathematics
there's lots of fun and joy
When the world around me puzzles me,
I'm dreaming of a world
where the meaning of life can be explained
like a mathematical proof
Oh, if I had been a scalar-product, scalar-product, scalar-product,
Oh, if I had been a scalar-product,
scalar product, fidelidum-de-do
And every friday 3 o'clock, 'bout sixty degrees theta,
came Euclid with a matrix and an x and y and zeta
We'd sit right there discussing different ways to calcula-ta
Angles that were right and wrong, obtuse, we'd specula-ta
Oh, if I had been a scalar-product, scalar-product, scalar-product,
Oh, if I had been a scalar-product, scalar product, fidelidum-de-do
Then I'd be sitting in a vector space, a vector space, a vector space
Oh, if I had been a scalar-product, scalar product, fidelidum-de-do
At evening time Cauchy and Schwarz from subspace came to join us,
bringing inner products of top quality, we'd drink and have a good time
The eigenvector played a tune in sinus and cosinus,
We normed it and transformed it, and debased it to the root, yes
Oh, if I had been a scalar-product, scalar-product, scalar-product,
Oh, if I had been a scalar-product, scalar product, fidelidum-de-do
Then I'd be sitting in a vector space, a vector space, a vector space
I would be sitting in a vector space, a vector space, fidelidum-de-do
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