The Inimitable Tom Lehrer

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

- Tom Lehrer

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Lehrer performing at a Maths lecture
some of the only footage of him anywhere on the internet.

Reviewer: TomTac - 5 out of 5 stars - June 12, 2005
Subject: Wonderful Music and Patter

This is a "Math Songs" concert, and is excellent. These are all songs I've never heard before, about calculus and algebra and mathematics applied to the social sciences. A great version of That's Mathematics! is given - it has original melody by Lehrer, as he explained that the tune he originally used for a parody was denied authorization - and a verse referencing the solution of Fermat's Last Theorum that was found in the mid-90s.

Wonderful to see him still enjoying performances!

Lehrer enjoying himself one more time

Source: www.archive.org/details/lehrer

Goodbye...

This page last updated on: Sunday, 18 January 2004