(Reuters) -Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, ...

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, a satirical songwriter known for witty songs about politics and society, has died at 97 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He left show business in the 1960s to teach math at Harvard, MIT, and ...

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