Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-11 Thread Francesco Bonazzi
This is a true loss for our community. May he rest in peace. I'll always remember interacting with him on several pull requests, especially receiving advice from him. His knowledge of mathematics was impressive. On Monday, March 11, 2024 at 9:21:08 p.m. UTC+1 abhinav@gmail.com wrote: > May

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-11 Thread Abhinav Anand
May he rest in peace. I still remember interacting with him on several pull requests back in 2020 when I was preparing for Gsoc. His knowledge really helped me and he gave me several interesting ideas. I am really grateful to him for his help. I learned a lot from him. Abhinav Anand On Sun, Mar

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-11 Thread Amit Kumar
That's very sad to hear. I have vivid memories of interacting with him on some pull requests, quite a while ago. He was very patient and was delight to communicate. I still remember, how he helped me in this PR: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/9291 I learnt a lot just by communicating to

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-11 Thread Ankit Kumar Singh
May God grant peace to the departed soul. I missed the chance to learn from him. Ankit On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 1:03 AM Peter Stahlecker wrote: > A very graceful eulogy. > > Best regards, > > Peter Stahlecker > > > On Mon 11. Mar 2024 at 20:03, Aaron Meurer wrote: > >> The passing of Kalevi

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-11 Thread Peter Stahlecker
A very graceful eulogy. Best regards, Peter Stahlecker On Mon 11. Mar 2024 at 20:03, Aaron Meurer wrote: > The passing of Kalevi Suominen truly a loss for the SymPy community. > > I had the honor of meeting Kalevi face to face once on a video call > many years ago, but other than that, like

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-11 Thread Aaron Meurer
The passing of Kalevi Suominen truly a loss for the SymPy community. I had the honor of meeting Kalevi face to face once on a video call many years ago, but other than that, like everyone else, I primarily interacted with him online. Kalevi was always known in the SymPy community as the

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-11 Thread Oscar Benjamin
Hi Jason, I checked with Kalevi's son just to be sure and yes, that is the same Kalevi. He completed his PhD in 1966: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=20539=1 Then after a long career teaching Mathematics at the University of Helsinki he got involved with SymPy development as

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-10 Thread Jason Moore
Hi Oscar, That is very sad to hear. I did not know Kalevi other than through SymPy but it looks like he was an Emeritus mathematics professor from the University of Helsinki. This page shows a photo of him:

[sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-10 Thread Oscar Benjamin
Hi all SymPy community, It is with great sadness that I bring the news that Kalevi Suominen (@jksuom on GitHub) passed away on the 4th of March. Kalevi's son Risto passed on this news to me and some others by email yesterday. I never met Kalevi in person but we had many conversations online over