Achi Brandt

Achi Brandt ( * 1938 in Givat Brenner, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician who deals with numerical mathematics.

Brandt was established in 1965 under Joseph E. Gillis at the Weizmann Institute doctorate with a thesis on numerical methods in hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. He is a member of the Weizmann Institute and a professor there. He also teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Brandt has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

He is known as one of the pioneers of the multigrid method with works in the 1970s (Full Approximation Scheme, FAS, 1977).

He is a senior scientist and co-founder of the software company VideoSurf, which was bought by Microsoft in 2011 and dealt with video search.

In 1978 he was awarded the Landau Prize in Mathematics in 1990 and the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics. In 2005 he received the SIAM / ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.

Writings

• Multi-level adaptive solutions to boundary- value problems, Mathematics of Computation, Volume 31, 1977, p 333-390.