Mathematician:Volker Strassen

Mathematician

German mathematician best known for design of efficient algorithms.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 29 April 29 1936 in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Strassen Algorithm
• Schönhage-Strassen Algorithm (with Arnold Schönhage)
• Solovay-Strassen Primality Test (with Robert Martin Solovay)

• Strassen's Invariance Principle (also known as Strassen's Law of the Iterated Logarithm)

Results named for Volker Strassen can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Volker Strassen can be found here.

Publications

• 1964: An Invariance Principle for the Law of the Iterated Logarithm

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Volker Strassen": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive