Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, and then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities,

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,

Tom Lehrer, an influential musical satirist who came to fame with songs addressing topical events in the '50s and '60s, has died at age 97.