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Dr. Leslie Greengard

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York, United States

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Research biography & scholarly focus

Co-inventor of the Fast Multipole Method (one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century); member of NAS, NAE, and Director of the Center for Computational Biology at Flatiron Institute.

Primary Subject Domain: MATHEMATICS
Department / Faculty: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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