Wolfgang Hackbusch

Updated on Oct 04, 2024

Edit

Comment

Occupation Mathematician Name Wolfgang Hackbusch		Role Mathematician

Born October 24, 1948 (age 76) ( 1948-10-24 ) Westerstede, Lower Saxony, Ger People also search for Dietrich Braess, U. Trottenberg, John T. Katsikadelis Books Multi‑Grid Methods and Appli, Iterative Solution of Large Sp, Tensor Spaces and Num, The Concept of Stability i, Hierarchical Matrices: Algorithm

Wolfgang Hackbusch (born 24 October 1948 in Westerstede, Lower Saxony) is a German mathematician, known for his pioneering research in multigrid methods and later hierarchical matrices, a concept generalizing the fast multipole method. He was a professor at the University of Kiel and is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.

Awards

1994 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Multi-grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, ISBN 3-540-12761-5

Elliptic Differential Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1992, Springer Berlin, ISBN 978-3-540-54822-5

Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations, 1993, Springer Berlin, ISBN 978-0-387-94064-9

Integral Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1995, Birkhäuser, ISBN 978-3-7643-2871-9

Hierarchische Matrizen: Algorithmen und Analysis, 2009, Springer Berlin, ISBN 978-3-642-00221-2

Tensor spaces and numerical tensor calculus, 2012, Springer, Heidelberg ISBN 978-3-642-28026-9 ISBN 978-3-642-28027-6

(Text) CC BY-SA