Tom Lehrer, a well -known and mathematician musical satirist, died. He was 97 years old.
According to The New York Times, His friend David Herder told Daily that her body had been found in her house in Cambridge on Saturday.
The work of the late musician became a success in the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by dark humorous themes that aimed at politics, marriage and racism.
Later, artists such as Randy Newman, Weird Al Yankovic and Harry Shearer were influenced by his albums, including successful songs The elements And The tango of masochism.
He also wrote a biting satire for the NBC show It was the week that wasOr TW3which has increased its popularity.
However, Tom, who had studied the piano since the age of 7, has not continued music for a long time, because he was absorbed by his academic work, teacher to students at Harvard, the University of California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Variety reported that he had said once a member of an audience: “I don’t like people to have the idea that I have to do this to make a living. I mean, it’s not like I should do it. I could win, Oh, $ 3000 a year, just to teach.”
Born in Manhattan in 1928, Tom never got married nor had children.
