Manuel was my office mate when I worked on Axiom (then Scratchpad) at IBM Watson labs and I later worked with him at ETH Zurich. Manuel was a world expert in symbolic integration and extended many of the techniques of that field to the problem of finding closed form solutions to differential equations. His death is a great loss for the computer algebra community in general, and for the Axiom/Aldor communtity in particular.
For those of us who knew Manuel, we have lost a great human being and a wonderful friend. He had a great sense of humor. I will never forget his practical jokes, having been a victim of his jokes on more than one occasion! He has left me fond memories of ski trips (in Connecticut, of all places), hikes, and flying single engine planes in the Alps. Manuel truly will be missed. My heart goes out to Karola and the kids. Clifton --- Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Fellows, > > today morning, Stephen Watt posted very sad news on > the aldor mailing list: > > > I am sorry to have to pass on the news that > yesterday Manuel Bronstein > > died of a heart attack. He was returning from a > conference trip and > > this was completely unexpected. He leaves behind > a wife, Carola, and > > six children. I have spoken with Carola to > express our sympathy. > > > > -- Stephen > > Although I only got a glimpse of him, I appreciated > his kindness and > helpfulness with regards to digging up old code and > get collaboration started. > > Sad news. > > In one of his last emails to me he wrote: > > > I really hope that the 2 efforts (axiom and aldor) > will converge and that the > > new aldor libraries can be used as engines for the > renewed axiom system in > > the near future. > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Axiom-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer > __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
