Volker Strassen is a German mathematician. He received in 2003, with three others, the Paris Kanellakis Award of the ACM, for work on randomised primality testing.

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.

In 1999 he was awarded the Cantor medal.

See also

• Strassen algorithm

External links

• Homepage of Dr. Volker Strassen