Re: Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
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- Subject: [mg101439] Re: [mg101427] Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
- From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:47:04 -0400 (EDT)
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This is quite a shock, I'm terribly sorry to hear this news. I learnt much from his postings. Thanks for letting us know. Peter 2009/7/7 <mtrott at wolfram.com>: > Dear Mathgroup, > > I am sorry to inform you that Jens-Peer Kuska passed away last week. > He was 45 years old. > > I have known Jens-Peer since the early 80s when we both studied physics > at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Our departments were on opposite > sides of the first floor hallway. > > After Germany's reunification and the availability of more computers > and software, Jens-Peer's favorite program soon become Mathematica. > And he evolved to be a true expert of it. > > His broad and detailed mathematics and physics knowledge allowed > Jens to cover new areas in computer graphics with his OpenGL viewer > and in his work on medical image processing. > > Most of the Mathgroup readers know Jens-Peer from his short, to the point= , > helpful, stimulating contributions to Mathgroup, where he contributed so > many times for more than 10 years. > > http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=OYlIrx8AAACUxZjYdkFuXR= kVM5CWP0nj1ZkYyRt9DFmqLZPJWZ3WHA > > And the German-speaking Mathematica user knew him additionally from his > many contribution to the German Mathematica user group: > > http://www.google.com/#q=Jens-Peer+Kuska+site:www.mathematica.ch&hl=e= n&fp=1&cad=b > > Jens-Peer was a brilliant Mathematica (and in general) programmer who > was able to code complicated algorithms efficiently and elegantly. His > reservoir of ideas what to implement, calculate, investigate, or > visualize was virtually unlimited. > > For the ones that were fortunate to know him in person and discuss > Mathematica, mathematics, physics, or image-processing issues with him, > know the value of his deep, critical, and constructive opinions and > contributions. > He loved to discuss so many different topics, ranging from Fullform[]s of > Mathematica graphics expressions to shape-characteristics of averaged > Wigner functions of quantum systems and the use of partial differentia= l > equations to image processing tasks. > We all will miss such discussions with him in the future. > > Jens-Peer will be missed by the Mathematica community, his university > department > (http://www.izbi.uni-leipzig.de/englisch/izbi/mitarbeiter/kuska.php), > his former students, his friends, and of course, his family. > > Michael Trott > Wolfram Research > -- Peter Lindsay
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