[J3] [SC22WG5.6535] AW: Fwd: Aleks Donev, former Fortran committee member

Van Snyder van.snyder at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jan 23 20:12:12 UTC 2024


Aleks will be missed. He wasn't just a pleasant and polite fellow. He
had excellent ideas for Fortran. He learned things very quickly. And he
was a superb mathematician. You don't get to be a professor at the
Courant Institute otherwise.

> Dear Steve Lionel,
> 
> 
> 
>   I’m writing with the sad news that Aleks Donev passed away last
> fall.
> 
> Aleks was on the Fortran committee for several years, but I’m not
> sure 
> 
> exactly when.  Please pass this on to anyone in that group who knew 
> 
> him.  There will be a memorial for Aleks on April 12 at the Courant 
> 
> Institute of NYU which anyone who knew Aleks is invited to attend.
> 
> 
> 
>       Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
>           Jonathan Goodman
> 
> 
> 
> Professor of Mathematics, 
> 
> Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
> 
> New York University
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