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 10, 2024 at 10:01 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/CACUdx91n-faK%3DVfW_SMgGXWarn8g7%2B9hJGxz0734zHJtVLnnCQ%40mail.gmail.com.
