Wolfgang Hackbusch
Wolfgang Hackbusch 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.- 1994 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 1996 Brouwer Medal
- 1998 Plenary Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians
Publications
- Multi-grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, ;
- Elliptic Differential Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1992, Springer Berlin,
- Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations, 1993, Springer Berlin,
- , 1995, Birkhäuser,
- Hierarchische Matrizen: Algorithmen und Analysis, 2009, Springer Berlin,
- Tensor spaces and numerical tensor calculus, 2012, Springer, Heidelberg
- , 2014, Springer, Leipzig
