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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Memorial for Lee Corbin Sunday Oct 16<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Tragic. Hopefully reversible, but still tragic. <o:p></o:p></p><p>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.<span style='color:windowtext'> Anders</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Lee is gone but never forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></div></body></html>