Olof B. Widlund (born 1938), is a

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mathematician. He is well known for his leading role in and fundamental contributions to

domain decomposition method In mathematics, numerical analysis, and numerical partial differential equations, domain decomposition methods solve a boundary value problem by splitting it into smaller boundary value problems on subdomains and iterating to coordinate the soluti ...

s. He received his Ph.D. at

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in 1966 and is professor of

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at the

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Publications

Recognition

He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the

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"for contributions to numerical analysis of domain decompositions within computational mathematics and for incubation through his writing and mentorship of a broad international, creative community of practice applied to highly resolved systems simulations".

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