page_title: Volker Strassen
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Volker Strassen / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Portret tijdens voordracht 19791026 English: Picture at Mathematisch Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach produced during Tagung 44/1979 19791026 on Complexity Theory.
context_page_description: Volker Strassen 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."
context_section_description: Strassen was born on April 29, 1936, in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim.
  After studying music, philosophy, physics, and mathematics at several German universities, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1962 from the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Konrad Jacobs. He then took a position in the department of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley while performing his habilitation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where Jacobs had since moved. In 1968, Strassen moved to the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the University of Zurich, where he remained for twenty years before moving to the University of Konstanz in 1988. He retired in 1998.
caption: Strassen in 1979
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