The renowned satirical composer and mathematical miracles, Tom Lehrer, died at the age of 97. On Saturday he was found dead in his house in Cambridge in Massachusetts, confirmed a long -time friend David Herder.
Who was Tom Lehrer?
He was born in 1928 in New York and was the son of a prosperous designer of a tie. With love, he remembered a carefree childhood at the Upper West Side on Manhattan, filled with trips to Broadway performances with his family and calmly walks through Central Park all the time.
According to the Apart, he once said: “I spent many, many years to satisfy all the requirements as many years as possible, and I started to work. But I just wanted to be a Grad student, it’s a wonderful life. That’s what I wanted to be, and unfortunately you can’t be Ph.D. and Grad.”
Tom clearly clear, Tom skipped two stamps and entered Harvard only 15. After winning a master’s degree in mathematics, he spent several years working on a doctorate, even though he did not finish it.
Tom was known for his sharp takeover of marriage, politics, racism and cold war. He largely resigned from the center of attention to continue teaching mathematics at Harvard and other universities.
He stayed at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of California in Santa Cruz until the end of the 70s. In a characteristic unconventional move, he waived his own copyright in 2020, which allowed the public to freely use his texts in any format free of charge.
Harvard Prodigy, who won the title of mathematics at only 18 years, quickly turned his intellect razor blade to the lamp and starting tradition and current problems.
At the age of 70 he began teaching part -time at UC Santa Cruz, especially for escape from the harsh winters of New England. Occasionally he admitted that students would apply for classes after discovering their musical past.
In addition to his academic work, he contributed songs to the educational children’s program “The Electric Company” from the 1970s. As he thought about this experience in an interview with the 2000 Associated Press, he said that hearing of people who mined from these songs brought him much more satisfaction than any praise he received for his satirical material.
His music enjoyed a revival with the 1980 “1980 revue, and in 1998 he rarely went publicly in London to honor the Cameron Mackintosh show.
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