From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   Mark R. Leeper passed away on February 22, 2025.  His end was very   
   peaceful; one moment there was a breath, and the next there wasn't.   
      
   Mark was born in Chicago in 1950, and has lived in Chicago, West   
   Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, California, Michigan, and for the last 47   
   years, New Jersey.  He received a B.S. in mathematics from the   
   University of Massachusetts in 1972, an M.S. in mathematics from   
   Stanford University in 1974, and an M.E. in electrical engineering and   
   computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1982.  While at   
   Stanford, he had a paper published in aequationes mathematicae (Vol.   
   10, Fasc. 1, 1974) on which he had begun work as an undergraduate, “An   
   Odd Solution to the Functional Equation P((x+1)/2)=exp P(x)”.  He was   
   employed at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel and surrounding locations for   
   23 years until his retirement in 2001.  After retiring he ran a free   
   drop-in math tutoring session twice a week for a dozen years at the Old   
   Bridge Public Library, and when he had to leave for health reasons, it   
   was continued by some of the students he had tutored.   
      
   For many years, Mark had been the longest-running film reviewer on the   
   Internet, regularly publishing reviews since 1984, and being a member of   
   the Online Film Critics Society since 2014.  His first science fiction   
   convention was Boskone VI (1969) and he attended dozens of conventions,   
   serving on panels about film, and also leading origami workshops at many   
   of them.  In 1978, Mark and his wife founded the science fiction club at   
   Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, which existed until their retirement in   
   2001, and then continued to produce THE MT VOID, a weekly zine featuring   
   Mark's editorials and film writing.  It was published continuously over   
   46 years, with over 2300 issues.  Mark traveled to about five dozen   
   countries and published several lengthy travelogues on-line.  He leaves   
   behind him his wife of 52 years Evelyn, sister Sherry, brother David,   
   and many cousins, nieces, nephews, godchildren, and friends.   
      
   In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to the UMass Amherst   
   Foundation, for the Leeper Mathematics Scholarship.   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
      
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