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.

Wolfgang Hackbusch
Born	24 October 1948 Westerstede, Lower Saxony, Ger
Occupation	Mathematician

Awards and honors

• 1994 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 1996 Brouwer Medal
• 1998 Plenary Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians[1]

Publications

• Multi-grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, ISBN 3-540-12761-5; 2013 pbk reprint
• 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
• The Concept of Stability in Numerical Mathematics, 2014, Springer, Leipzig ISBN 978-3-642-39385-3

References

1. Hackbusch, Wolfgang (1998). "From classical mathematics to scientific numerical computing". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I. pp. 235–254.

• 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