Volker Strassen, a Common card

Volker Strassen is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz.
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Rarity: Common
Domain: Science
ATK: 55
DEF: 32
Power: 87
Wikipedia reads a year: 6,700

Power 87 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.

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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."

Why it is Common

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Text : Wikipedia, Volker Strassen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : David Eppstein, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.