Volker Strassen

Volker Strassen
Volker Strassen giving the Knuth Prize lecture at SODA 2009
Born (1936-04-29) April 29, 1936
Düsseldorf-Gerresheim, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Statistics, Computer Science
Doctoral advisor
Konrad Jacobs
Doctoral students
Walter Baur
Peter Bürgisser
Joachim von zur Gathen
Joos Ulrich Heintz

Volker Strassen (born April 29, 1936) is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz.

For important contributions to the analysis of algorithms he has received many awards, including the Cantor medal, the Konrad Zuse Medal, the Paris Kanellakis Award for work on randomized primality testing, the Knuth Prize for "seminal and influential contributions to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms."

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