Subj : Funny That was:Social was
To   : DAVE DRUM
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Sep 20 2024 11:07:00

> Nay! ALL of Professor Lehrer's songs are hilarious. In 2022, Tom Lehrer
> gave an enormous ...anukkah present to the world, dedicating his entire
> oeuvre to the Public Domain.

That is great!  That is probably why the IG poster I mentioned is able to
use so many of his songs.

> From 1962, he taught mathematics in the political science department
> at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1965 he gave up
> on his mathematics dissertation on modes in statistics, after working
> on it intermittently for 15 years.

Teaching mathematics in a poli-sci department is not something you expect
to hear every day, but I guess that is something one might expect at MIT!

> And AFAIK he's still above the sod. I cannot find anywhere that gives a
> date for his demise. Just a "born on" of 09 April, 1928.

He could very well be.  Good on him!

Mike


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