West End impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered US song satirist Tom Lehrer as “wry, generous and utterly original” following his death aged 97. Lehrer died at his home in Cambridge, ...

Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has ...

Tom Lehrer, the American satirical songwriter and mathematician whose darkly comic songs skewered politics, culture, and human folly in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 96. Born Thomas ...

Tom Lehrer, the mathematician and song satirist who had a massive musical influence in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97. Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his ...

Tom Lehrer, the legendary musical satirist, mathematician, and former soldier, died over the weekend at the age of 97 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lehrer gained notoriety for his sharp wit ...

Recently I noted and lamented the passing of a funny math guy — my kind of person and idol. You may never have heard of him or understood him if you knew his work. His humor weapon of choice was ...

Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite US song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching maths at Harvard and other ...