Wolfgang Hackbusch

Wolfgang Hackbusch ( born October 24, 1948 in Westerstede ) is a German mathematician and Leibniz Prize winners.

Hackbusch studied mathematics from 1967 in Marburg and Cologne, where he became " The use of the extrapolation method for the numerical solution of hyperbolic differential equations " doctorate in 1973 at Roland Bulirsch with the dissertation. In 1979, in Cologne, the habilitation. He then took first in 1980 a professorship at the University of Bochum in 1982 and moved to the Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Kiel. He was a scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, where he is a director since 2000 1999. At the same time he remained at Kiel University as an honorary professor connected.

Hack Busch's The overriding area of ​​research are methods for the numerical solution of integral and partial differential equations. He became world famous in professional circles for his work on multi-grid method, which he developed independently. Hackbusch provided essential contributions to the understanding of these processes and could on this basis more important approaches such as panel clustering and H- matrices develop.

In 1994, Hackbusch the Leibniz Prize. He is a member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 1993. In 1998 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (From classical numerical mathematics to scientific computing ). In 1996 he received the Brouwer Medal. 1999 to 2004 he was on the Council of IPAM, University of California, Los Angeles.

In 2006, Hackbusch was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Writings

  • Integral Equations: Theory and Numerical Analysis, 1997, 2nd edition, Teubner Verlag, ISBN 3-519-12370-3
  • Theory and Numerical elliptic partial differential equations, 1996, 2nd edition, Teubner Verlag, ISBN 3-519-12074-7
  • Iterative solution of large sparse systems of equations, 1993, 2nd edition, Teubner Verlag, ISBN 3- 519-12372 -X
  • Multi -grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, ISBN 3-540-12761-5
  • Hierarchical Matrices: Algorithms and Analysis, 2009, Springer, ISBN 3642002218
  • Hierarchical matrices, Yearbook 2001 MPG
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