Tom Lehrer biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Tom Lehrer

Author Name:

Tom Lehrer

Born As:

Thomas Andrew Lehrer

Other Names:

Born:

9 Apr 1928

Died:





author picture
Mathematician, satirist, singer, and songwriter                          
Mathematical publications:

The American Mathematical Society shows him as co-author of two papers:
RE Fagen & TA Lehrer, "Random walks with restraining barrier as applied to the biased binary counter," Journal of the Society for Industrial Applied Mathematics, vol. 6, p.1-14 - 1958.

T Austin, R Fagen, T Lehrer, W Penney, "The distribution of the number of locally maximal elements in a random sample," Annals of Mathematical Statistics vol. 28, - 1957.

Discs:

Songs by Tom Lehrer - 1953 - Re-released in 1990 as Revisited with the additional songs "Silent E" and "L-Y"
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer - 1959
Tom Lehrer in Concert - 1959
More of Tom Lehrer - 1959
Tom Lehrer Revisited - 1960
Tom Lehrer Discovers Australia - And Vice Versa - 1960
That Was the Year That Was - 1965
Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer - 1997
The Remains of Tom Lehrer - 2000                          
                          
Lehrer earned his BA in mathematics - Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard University in 1947, when he was 18. Received an MA the next year, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. 

Tom Lehrer taught classes at MIT, Harvard and Wellesley. He remained in Harvard's doctoral program for several years, taking time out for his musical career and to work as a researcher at Los Alamos, New Mexico. He joined the Army from 1955 to 1957, working at the National Security Agency.                          
Artium Baccalaureus - Harvard University - 1947, at age nineteen.