Wolfgang Hackbusch | |
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| Born | 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.
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Wolfgang Hackbusch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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