Wolfgang Hackbusch

Wolfgang Hackbusch
Born	(1948-10-24) 24 October 1948 Westerstede, Lower Saxony, Ger
Occupation	Mathematician

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 and honors

• 1994 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 1996 Brouwer Medal
• 1998 Plenary Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians
• 2020 Gumin Prize for Mathematics

Publications

• Multi-grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, ; 2013 pbk reprint
• Elliptic Differential Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1992, Springer Berlin,
• Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations, 1993, Springer Berlin,
• Integral Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1995, Birkhäuser,
• Hierarchische Matrizen: Algorithmen und Analysis, 2009, Springer Berlin,
• Tensor spaces and numerical tensor calculus, 2012, Springer, Heidelberg
• The Concept of Stability in Numerical Mathematics, 2014, Springer, Leipzig

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

• Wolfgang Hackbusch at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig