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Tom Lehrer, Harvard’s Satiric, Melodic Mathematician, Dies at 97


Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, according to the New York Times. He was 97.

Tom Lehrer performing in 1965. Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, according to the New York Times. Lehrer died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Times said, citing a friend of Lehrer’s, David Herder.

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