True Class is in Session
This is a massive treat for Tom Lehrer fans. As you may know, before and after he wrote wonderful comedy songs, Tom Lehrer was a mathematics professor at MIT and later at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I’m not exactly sure what this is but – I think this comes from his days at UC Santa Cruz, and probably when they were having some department event. And for it, Lehrer entertained and brought out a bunch of old math songs he’d written over the years and were sitting in his proverbial trunk. Most of the songs aren’t Prime Lehrer – and most will only be really funny to mathematicians. But any “new found” songs by Tom Lehrer is a treasure. But still, the final song, that he wrote for the Children’s Television Workshop, though it never got on the air, is a lot of fun, “That’s Mathematics.”
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