Re: [Visualpython-users] Arthur Siegel

[Jon S. <js...@gm...>]

This is very sad news.

There was something special about Arthur--a dedication to beauty, clarity,
and a desire to make a contribution--that came though in his projects and in
his emails.



On 2/6/07, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...> wrote:
>
> From the New York Time obituaries:
>
> Arthur Jay Siegel
> SIEGEL - Arthur Jay , 55, died Tuesday evening of an unexpected heart
> attack. An international business consultant and a self-taught
> mathematician/computer scientist, he invented PyGeo - a software used to
> create interactive, three-dimensional geometric spaces. He grew up in
> East Meadow. He and his loving wife of 29 years, Carol, moved four years
> ago to Yorktown Heights. He treasured a close friendship with his son,
> Benjamin, 23. In addition to Ben and Carol, Arthur is survived by his
> father, Jacob Siegel, sisters Beth Siegel, Marian Siegel and Marsha
> Berzon and many loving nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws and friends.
> Funeral services will be held at Riverside Memorial Chapel, 21 W. Broad
> Street, Mount Vernon, New York at noon on Sunday.
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> I'm thunderstruck by this bolt out of the blue. As you know, Arthur was
> doing wonderful work on the beta version of VPython. I never met him in
> person, but he was a good colleague. I had been amazed by how quickly he
> came up to speed on complex aspects of Visual. I'll miss him.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
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