Re: Grzegorz Bancerek has passed away
Krystyna Kuperberg <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:26:12 +0000
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To jest bardzo smutna wiadomość. Czy będzie dla niego wirtualna świeczka tak jak była dla Andrzeja? Krystyna On 11/21/17, 16:51, "[email protected] on behalf of Adam Naumowicz" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >With deepest regret I have to announce that our colleague Grzegorz >Bancerek passed away prematurely on November 18th at age 51. Today we >accompanied Grzegorz on His last journey and united in sorrow with His >wife Ewa and two children, Bartek and Maria. > >Grzegorz was an indispensable member of the Mizar team, who was >several times awarded with the Sleszynski and Lesniewski Prizes of the >Association of Mizar Users. He took part in the founding of the Mizar >Mathematical Library, and He still remains one of the most prolific Mizar >authors to date with 124 MML contributions. It must be noted that He >never >avoided difficult scientific challenges. His formalizations concerned a >great variety of mathematical domains, including foundations of set >theory, topology, lattice theory, universal and many-sorted algebra, or >category theory. He was also the leader of the team-effort project aimed >to formalize the Compendium of Continuous Lattices in Mizar. Recently, >His >works focused on computer science topics, most notably the analysis of >algorithms and the formalization of the metatheory of the Mizar system. > >Being a mathematician by education, Grzegorz was also a self-educated >programmer who was always keen to discover new technologies and >programming techniques and to apply them in His projects. Among His >various tools and services He developed several versions of remote Mizar >processors, on-line Mizar courses and e-learning classes. But most >importantly He was the author of the current implementation of the >translation software used in automatic generation of English math text >from Mizar articles for the Formalized Mathematics journal, of which He >was the Scientific Editor. He also developed several data formats and >on-line systems to help browsing, searching, and analyzing the MML. The >powerful MML Query system was His invention intended to aid writing Mizar >articles, but also to explore and present the contents of the Mizar >library. > >For the last nine years Grzegorz was struggling with severe illnesses, >but >still remained active and spared no strength for the good of the Mizar >project. > >Personally, I will always remember Grzegorz as a brilliant scientist and >a >dedicated university teacher, but also as a very cheerful and open person >with great devotion to family life, who very much enjoyed Japanese >cuisine >and loved playing the guitar classical pieces in His free time. > > >Adam Naumowicz > >========================================================================== >= >Dept. of Programming and Formal Methods Fax: +48(85)738-83-33 >Institute of Informatics Tel: +48(85)738-83-06 >(office) >University of Bialystok E-mail: [email protected] >Ciolkowskiego 1M, 15-245 Bialystok, Poland >http://math.uwb.edu.pl/~adamn/ >========================================================================== >= >