Tom Lehrer in general Reviews

Around 80 years ago Thomas Andrew Lehrer was born (April 9, 1928), known now to many as Tom Lehrer, the man has done it all since. Usually a person stays in one form or another of work, but Lehrer has managed to mix all of his together at times, which has seen not only a cynical look at the army, a satire based look at education and ...

Tom Lehrer is, in my opinion, one of the funniest (and sickest) men who ever lived. It therefore comes as a surprise to many people that he was in fact a professor of mathematics (although I am sure this would be no surprise to other mathematicians). This fact is hinted at in one of his better known songs, Lobochevsky, in which he passes on to ...

Have you ever pondered the incongruities of life? You know, the great unanswered questions of our time, which include: How does the man who drives the snowplough get to work? What is a Ulay? Where are they going to get the seeds for next year's crop of seedless grapes from? Of course there are many, many ...