Re: Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
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- Subject: [mg101507] Re: Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 01:54:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Returning to the group after a couple of days off, I read this shocking and rather unexpected news. If there would be one constant factor in life, it would be Jens-Peer's presence here. I'll miss his typical reply template: "... and <ingenious solution> doesn't work ??" My condoleances and thoughts go to his family and friends. Sjoerd On Jul 7, 11:03 am, mtr... at wolfram.com wrote: > 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=OYlIrx8AAACUxZjYdkFu..=