# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-hackbusch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:07:32.556Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-hackbusch"
name: "Wolfgang Hackbusch"
slug: "wolfgang-hackbusch"
description: "Wolfgang Hackbusch 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."
tagline: "German mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1948-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump