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:
https://wiki.helsinki.fi/xwiki/bin/view/mathstatHenkilokunta/Henkil%C3%B6t/Suominen%2C%20Kalevi/ His contributions to SymPy will live on. I believe he mentored GSoC students. If anyone knows more about Kalevi and can share, that would be much appreciated. Sincerely, Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:31 PM Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > many years. Kalevi was an outstanding SymPy contributor and was > involved with the project long before me and so there are others here > who have known him much longer than I have. Kalevi guided many SymPy > contributors and supervised many GSOC students over many years. > Looking in the git history his earliest commit was from almost exactly > 10 years ago. > > Personally I learnt a huge amount from Kalevi and I am very grateful > for the time he took to teach me and others and to guide the project > generally. Kalevi's expertise in many areas of Mathematics and across > the full depth of many parts of the SymPy codebase was unmatched > within the community. > > Interacting through GitHub I guess that many of us did not realise > that Kalevi's health was in decline. He continued to be involved > including most recently reviewing a pull request just 6 weeks ago. A > few weeks ago he sent me some files with what he was most recently > working on but was no longer able to finish. I will try to complete > that work and submit it as Kalevi's final pull request. > > Kalevi's passing is a huge loss to SymPy but I don't want to dwell on > that. Instead I invite those of us who have known Kalevi to share > their thoughts and memories here. > > Oscar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxTRWVQp_N_0%3DNnf-yBJwSu373sw-NB7UKuZCks2HTHGaA%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AgzKoA5-P_OH0GZwFOjd4M5ipFPVV14RgSaHL73qwxYCQ%40mail.gmail.com.
