Bangs Leslie Tapscott

His 1965 Enlightenment philosophers course at the UW was beyond brilliant, seeding a philosophic life. For a new book I was going to query him about whether the multiverse as a set of infinite possibilities is limited by Russell's Paradox--but we might meet multiversally to discuss that . . .

Professor Tapscott was instructor in applied symbolic logic. A course which I took as an undergrad at the U. Later I became a math faculty for number of years. I enjoyed auditing his philosophy courses when I visited Salt Lake City. It was enjoyable to listen to his music on campus. Mostafa Ghandehari

I did not have the privilege of meeting Professor Tapscott. I am grateful to him for his excellent and thought provoking works in the field of logic. I have learned a great deal from them and I have no doubt that they will continue to help others on their path of learning. I believe he would be happy to know this.

I did not know Bangs extremely well, however, I shared many duties at the U of Utah with him on various university committees. He was always genial and friendly and had a deep understanding of the whims of university dealings . He was always a pleasure to be with and I enjoyed his company immensely .

I first met Bangs when I was editor of The Event Newspaper. He would come in each month to print the IAMA newsletter so he could take it to the printer. I thought he was a bit of a curmudgeon back then. But when I took over the IAMA newsletter in the mid-'90s, I got to know him much better. We'd talk on the phone each month around deadline time. When I'd call and I'd identify myself, he'd always say, "So it is." That became our salutation in all the emails we exchanged from then on. As I got...

I got to know Bangs when I joined the IAMA Board. It took a while, but the more we interacted, the more I grew fond of him. We worked closely together as volunteers with IAMA to the extent that when I served as President, he was Vice President. He taught me a lot and I´ve considered him as one of my life´s mentors. I loved visits in he and Fran´s home where we sipped wine and he showed me stuff. I have several LPs of Folk, Bluegrass and Jazz that were his. After a visit at my house, he filled...

I first met Bangs when my family moved in next door to him. I remember him in his back yard banging away on some metal trying out his new anvil. Later, when I went to the UofU, his Modal Logic class was recommended to me by the instructor of my first symbolic logic course. I have kept in touch every now and then... and they were were always worthwhile talks.

Bangs Tapscott taught the most difficult of my classes as a philosophy major in 1971-72. He made the exams in symbolic logic long and hard. I once asked him why, since the reasoning had already been done, do we need to hurry in evaluating it? At the time, I had no idea that I would use those truth tables very, very often in my unanticipated career in information technology, but the facility with logic and emphasis on quickness that he required served me well for 35 years. While he taught...

I remember Dr. Tapscott from my 1971 U of U freshman Deductive Logic class, reading from his own, paper-bound text book. Fascinating lecturer and interesting man. I did not know him personally but admired him. Fair journey, Dr. Tapscott.