Wolfgang Hackbusch
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
Publications
- Multi-grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, ISBN 3-540-12761-5
- Elliptic Differential Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1992, Springer Berlin, ISBN 978-3540548225
- Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations, 1993, Springer Berlin, ISBN 978-0387940649
- Integral Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1995, Birkhäuser, ISBN 978-3764328719
- Hierarchische Matrizen: Algorithmen und Analysis, 2009, Springer Berlin, ISBN 978-3642002212
References
- Stefan Sauter and Gabriel Wittum, On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Wolfgang Hackbusch, Computing and Visualization in Science 11(2008) 191 DOI 10.1007/s00791-008-0123-z
External links
Wolfgang Hackbusch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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