Leslie Greengard

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Leslie F. Greengard (* 1958 in London ) is an American mathematician who deals with numerical mathematics .

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Leslie Greengard is the son of Nobel Prize winner Paul Greengard , grew up in New York , Boston and New Haven and studied at Wesleyan University (Bachelor in Mathematics 1979) and Yale University , where he graduated as a doctor (MD) in 1987 and im in the same year with Vladimir Rokhlin in computer science ( The rapid evaluation of potential fields in particle systems ). From 1987 to 1989 he was a National Science Research Fellow at Yale. Since 1989 he has been at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , where he is currently a professor and where he was director.

Greengard, together with Vladimir Rokhlin, invented the "Fast Multipole Method" in 1987, which enabled a considerable acceleration of the numerical solution of the Laplace equation , with applications in particular in problems of electrodynamics and gravitation (astrophysics) in the problem of many interacting particles. He is also working on other fast algorithms such as B. in diffusion (Fast Gauss Transform).

In 2001 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize with Rokhlin . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Engineering. In addition to the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award , he was also a Packard Foundation Fellow. In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( A new version of the fast Gauss transform , with Xiaobai Sun). In 2014 he was awarded the John von Neumann Lecture award .

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  • with Vladimir Rokhlin A fast algorithm for particle simulations , Journal computational physics, Vol. 73, 1987, p. 325 (Fast Multipol Method)

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  1. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Greengard, Leslie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greengard, Leslie F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH London