Pour one out for a great one.

Aww. So great he had such a long life but damn do we need him.

We salute you, brother! youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...

I was introduced to his music in grade school during a music class! What a genius he was!

tomlehrersongs.com

Oh, so sad.

My favorite from his Wikipedia entry:

Thanks for the gift link, Pwn!

First Doctor Demento retires, now Tom Lehrer dies. Not cool, universe.

Listening to my parent's Tom Lehrer albums as 10 year old set me up to buy my 1st Dead Kennedys album 9 years later & never look back.

RIP Tom Lehrer, possibly the greatest lyrical satirist in American musical history. So many of his songs remain relevant -right now, I'm specifically thinking of "Pollution" and "New Math".

Oh, and of course, “So Long Mom,” in which he so accurately predicted the current media environment surrounding military conflicts

“Werner von Braun” also still feels timely, along with “Who’s Next?”

Most people, of course, know him for his incredible music. But he wasn't just musically talented. After getting drafted in 57, he worked at NSA in math, which he finally publicly disclosed in 2020.

Letter also claimed he invented the Jello shot when he tried to smuggle alcohol onto a Navy ship during his service days. Since alcohol was forbidden on board, he claimed that he made Jello using a bottle of contraband vodka.

And since I know you're excited to know "ok but what math", well, here you go: The random walk on a one dimensional lattice with restraining barrier at the origin and absorbing barrier at N for the case where only steps of r units to the right and units to the left are allowed By Tom Lehrer et al

We discussed this in my random processes course. I never would have imagined this connection!

Cited to in that paper, a certain Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, and his paper "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Remannian Manifolds" Of whom, and of which, he wrote the famous song en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobache...

this is the coolest thing i never heard of

(Unpublished)

youtu.be/UQHaGhC7C2E

Weird Al has a degree in architecture that he's supposedly never used since his music career got going while he was still in college. Wild if after his death we find out actually he secretly designed some bridges or something.

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What an amazing life he lived! As he said: "Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it".

amazing. He was the best.

Love this

Plagiarize!!! I love It, I have several of his records. Though The Irish Song was my first contact with his (musical) work, courtesy of prof. Solvberg and colleagues with U. Trondheim. Thank you for leading me to T. Lehrer.

To be fair he stole that from a guy in Dnepropetrovsk

He did first passage statistics? What a guy.

Which pro sports team drafted him?

He taught math, too. I took his ‘Math for Poets’ class as an undergrad to fulfill a breadth requirement

I just found out today he invented jello shots

Specifically, as a way around university rules that said no alcoholic *beverages* were allowed.

Listen to National Brotherhood Week. 😢 One of the truly greatest.

Pigeons everywhere were said to be celebrating the news.

"By Richard Severo and Peter Keepnews" Severo died 2 years ago at 90, tom outlived his obituary writer

Famously, Tom Lehrer said that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. So it's good that he lived long enough to see Kissinger put in the ground.

One of the few really great “Person X outlived Person Y” of recent years

Awww...hell...

oh, no

I can still hum "The Vatican Rag." "First you get down on your knees Fiddle with your rosaries Bow your head with great respect And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!"

Here's where you can find his songs: tomlehrersongs.com/albums/

But he said we will all go together when we go...

This needs a lot more love imo

Just when we need someone to sing us of Werner von Braun, sigh.

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Oh, sad.

😭

What an amazing mind! RIP

Genius!

sad news

I still have all of my parents’ albums of his. I literally put his songbook in a box two days ago. Underappreciated genius.

My hubby introduced me to his music! 😢