Wolfgang Hackbusch

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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{{cite book|author=Hackbusch, Wolfgang|chapter=From classical mathematics to scientific numerical computing|title=Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I|year=1998|pages=235–254|chapter-url=https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011723000}}
2020 Gumin Prize for Mathematics{{cite web |url=https://www.mis.mpg.de/news/heinz-gumin-prize-ceremoniously-presented-to-wolfgang-hackbusch | title= Heinz Gumin Prize ceremoniously presented to Wolfgang Hackbusch|date=Jul 26, 2022 |access-date= December 9, 2024}}

Multi-grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, {{ISBN|3-540-12761-5}}; [https://books.google.com/books/about/Multi_Grid_Methods_and_Applications.html?id=jJ36CAAAQBAJ 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}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ssnf7SZB0ZMC 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}}
[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Concept_of_Stability_in_Numerical_Ma.html?id=mq-9BAAAQBAJ The Concept of Stability in Numerical Mathematics], 2014, Springer, Leipzig {{ISBN|978-3-642-39385-3}}

Stefan Sauter and Gabriel Wittum, On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Wolfgang Hackbusch, Computing and Visualization in Science 11(2008) 191 [https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00791-008-0123-z DOI 10.1007/s00791-008-0123-z]

[http://www.mis.mpg.de/scicomp/hackbusch.de.html Wolfgang Hackbusch] at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig