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Volker Strassen
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.
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