Volker Strassen is a German mathematician. He received in 2003, with three others, the Paris Kanellakis Award of the ACM, for the Solovay-Strassen primality test.

In 1971 Strassen published a paper together with Arnold Schönhage on fast multiplication, see Schönhage-Strassen algorithm. He is also noted for developing, in 1969, an algorithm for fast matrix multiplication, now known as Strassen's algorithm. He also modified the algorithm to perfom matrix inversion faster.

In 1999 he was awarded the Cantor medal.

See also

• Strassen algorithm

External links

• Homepage of Dr. Volker Strassen (not valid any more; Strassens emailadress can be found here: http://www.math.uni-konstanz.de/Organisation/Personalverzeichnis#S)
• Strassen formulas for fast(er) matrix multiplication and inversion, on MathWorld.

German mathematicians | 20th century mathematicians | 21st century mathematicians | Living people | Erdős number 2

Volker Strassen