FOM: Tom Lehrer

Stephen Cook sacook at cs.toronto.edu
Fri Jan 16 10:48:27 EST 1998


Tom Lehrer, a long time Harvard math grad student in the 50's,
is the person Robert Tragesser is refering to.    He used to entertain
his math TA sections with his songs.

Steve Cook

	         [There was a wonderful mathematician/
	 piano-playing satirist in the 50's-'70's
	 whose name I forget (?) (Plagerize,  let nothing
	 evade your eyes,  etc.) one of whose
	 pieces made fun of hippy-counter-culture,
	 free university mathematics. . .]
	 



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