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 universities,

Mathematician/musician's darkly comic lyrics in the Fifties and Sixties inspired fans like "Weird Al" Yankovic, Steely Dan, Randy Newman, and Daniel Radcliffe

Reports about the death of singer-songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer have surfaced online. He was a Harvard-educated mathematician who briefly served in the U.S. Army. These had a considerable impact on the music he created,