Re: Re: Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
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- Subject: [mg101474] Re: [mg101439] Re: [mg101427] Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
- From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:10:54 -0400 (EDT)
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I join Emilio and others in expressing what a great loss this is. I am rather new to the group, but was totally shocked. Jens - Peer's presence and influence on the group seemed to me as something unquestionable, I felt like he always was there and always will be. My sincerest condolence to all those close to Jens - Peer, everybody who knew him, and all of the group as well. Life often isn't fair, but not so often to such extent. Leonid > 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 > >