Wolfgang Hackbusch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wolfgang Hackbusch

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1948

Place of Birth: Westerstede, Lower Saxony, Germany

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.