NATURE: Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: April 6, 2018 at 11:02:15 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] NATURE: Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
>
>
> NATURE: Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
>
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03922-x
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>    Lehrer -- who grew up on New York City's Upper East Side --
>    certainly sees a connection between his mathematical training,
>    which began at Harvard at the prodigiously young age of 14,
>    and his compositions. He was drawn to songwriting in his
>    teens; after failing to respond to classical-music training,
>    he switched to the study of popular music. In an interview in
>    2000, he summed up the fields' dual impact. "The logical mind,
>    the precision, is the same that's involved in math as in
>    lyrics," he said. "It's like a puzzle, to write a song."
>
> - - -
>
> Tom Lehrer turns 90 in just a few days. For many of us, life just
> wouldn't have been the same without him!
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein (lauren () vortex com): 



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