From Numbers to Notes: How a Mathematician Became the Master of Musical Satire
A Sunday Ode in Song Form
Amanda Stern
September 29, 2024
It’s a rainy Sunday here on the east coast.
There’s no better weather than this to reach back in time, to the 50s and 60s, to highlight the one man everyone turned to for laughter and spirit lifting.
This clever, funny, piano-playing satirist-turned-mathematician recently put all his music into the public domain, so everyone can use it.
They don’t make men like this anymore.
Enjoy the songs I grew up with (thanks, dad!) and listen to when I need a jolt of intellectually stimulating wordplay.
Do you know who I’m talking about?
Find out after the jump…
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