“Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on … campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97”
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“He stopped performing in 1960 after only a few years, resumed briefly in 1965 and then stopped for good in 1967. His music was ultimately just a momentary detour in an academic career that included teaching posts at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
The inventor of the vodka Jell-O shot, created because the rules said no alcoholic *beverages* at Fort Meade...
Ah well, we will all go together when we go...
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me
And makes every Sunday a treat for me
All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park
Every Sunday you'll see my sweetheart and me
As we poison the pigeons in the park
Absolute hero of my student days. I once quoted Lobachevsky in an engineering paper just for fun.
If my German is correct he has the perfect surname for someone who teaches.
Tom Lehrer was a genius—his satire still feels sharp today. , ever dive into his stuff? Lehrer’s humor was math-level precise. What a loss.