Wolfgang Hackbusch receives Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation

On November 27th, the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation awards the Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics to Wolfgang Hackbusch, Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. The foundation hereby recognizes his groundbreaking contributions to numerical mathematics, especially to the development of H-matrices and hierarchical tensors.