[ExI] Memorial for Lee Corbin Sunday Oct 16

[Forrest Bennett]

Spike,

I respectfully disagree that Lee was lost outside the topics of futurism,
mathematics, and computers. I also know that you meant no harm by your
comment, but were just representing Lee as you knew him.

Lee was extremely knowledgable about history, physics, cosmology,
philosophy, economics, chess (of course), evolutionary psychology, as well
as certain areas of chemistry, biological evolution, and science fiction.
He was also into classical music, go, geography, and movies. I may have
left out some subject areas, but you get the idea.

Lee's curiosity and knowledge were quite wide ranging.

Forrest



On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 9:04 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Memorial for Lee Corbin Sunday Oct 16
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> Tragic. Hopefully reversible, but still tragic.
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> I remember him being a fixture when I first came onto this list. And a
> quite essential node in the networks when I made sociograms of our
> conversations.  Anders
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> Lee was Dr. Matrix.  For those who followed the annual Dr. Joshua Irving
> Matrix columns in Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Recreations column in
> Scientific American, Lee could have been the model for Dr. Matrix.  If one
> wanted to talk about futurism, mathematics or computers, he was the man to
> see.  Very far outside those topics, he was lost.
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> I went back over my notes from about ten years ago and reviewed our
> discussions.  He taught me Python, I taught him spreadsheet scripting
> language.  We were both doing mathematical explorations and both benefitted
> enormously from the other’s expertise.  I don’t know if I was the better
> teacher or he was the better student, but my progress in Python was slower
> than his progress in VBA.
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> Lee is gone but never forgotten.
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