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 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....@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+un...@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/db547366-4865-4eff-bfbe-3a6840d01bcen%40googlegroups.com.
