Tom Lehrer - Derivative Song

A fun little song about how to find a derivative.

According to the Internet Archive, this video footage is from Irving "Kaps" Kaplansky's 80th Birthday Celebration on March 19, 1997 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA.

You can watch and download the whole performance at http://www.archive.org/details/lehrer

Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVSXEu0bqI

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• tom
• lehrer
• math
• song
• derivative
• piano
• MSRI
• 1997

[TheDavynator0]

don't drink and derive though.

[DrStrangelove346]

Don't hate, integrate!

[cheesecake283]

proud math geek :)

[plaustrarius]

Where can I get the chords for this song?

[zomgthesoftness]

You probably thought this equation was differentiable here.

Nope, Chuck Testa.

[lovebugg327]

hahahahah

[runeack]

@georgeorwelI study shows that if your name is also the name of a profession or something assosiated with one you are more likely to work in that profession as an adult, this is known as nominative determanism

[georgeorwelI]

Lehrer is the german word for teacher, fits him :D

[hedonism13]

Hey dawg, we heard you liked calculus, so we put a function in yo function so you can derive while you derive.

[x0xbethaNyyx0x]

@ninjatoothpaste that's interesting actually, nice to know!

[ninjatoothpaste]

@x0xbethaNyyx0x There was some study done with kids and IQ tests, my memory is vague on this but as I recall they had a control group, a bunch learning to us PCs and a group learning to play the piano, after however long it was the % increase in IQ score was iirc 0% for the control, 15% PC and 20% piano.

[x0xbethaNyyx0x]

@ninjatoothpaste well, you learn something new everyday haha thanks for that!