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If you’ve never heard Tim Lehrer’s funnies… head over to YouTube and plug in “New Math” … you won’t be sorry. Lehrer=genius…
If you’ve never heard Tim Lehrer’s funnies… head over to YouTube and plug in “New Math” … you won’t be sorry. Lehrer=genius…
For some odd reason, “New Math” was at the top of the list when I ?Googled Tom Leher songs.
*heh* I’ve had the “New Math” song memorized for thirty years now. (The same for most of Lehrer’s songs, though I’ve never mastered The Elements.)
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I honestly never understood the ‘New Math’ song, mostly because that’s how I learned math. What the heck was the ‘old math’?
We need to do a Tom Lehrer sing-along get together some day. A friend proposed a “flash mob” type of sing-along in Santa Cruz but it never got off the ground. Need to practice before we go out and do it on the streets!
Tom Lehrer is so very very awesome in so many many ways. One of the greatest wordsmiths in the history of songwriting.
And Mr. Lehrer’s book Too Many Words and Not Enough Pictures is well worth looking for.
I can sing his epic Irish Ballad, Be Prepared, and, of course, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park….
Lehrer always comes to mind when I am reading XKCD for some reason…. 😛
The Auld Grump
Lobachevsky.
“I never forget time I first meet the Great Lobachevsky. In one word, he sum up for me the fundamental principle of mathematical research: plagiarize.”
As for the New Math, I like Lehrer’s comment that base eight is just like base ten really, if you’re missing two fingers.
Cue: Queen’s “Under Pressure”, for many reasons.
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I actually got to see a semi private Tom Leher performance at UCSC when I attended… He was teaching what else but math… And I was taking a comedy & culture class ….he performed for our class. I appreciate it now more than I did then I’m afraid.
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