[jackpirate]

It seems like you have some misconceptions about Strassen's alg:

1. It is a standard example of the divide and conquer approach to algorithm design, not the dynamic programming approach. (I'm not even sure how you'd squint at it to convert it into a dynamic programming problem.)

2. Strassen's does not require complex valued matrices. Everything can be done in the real numbers.

[pontus]

I think the OP was pointing out that the reason Strasssen's algorithm works is that it somehow uncovered a kind of repeated work that's not evident in a simple divide and conquer approach. It's by the clever definition of the various submatrices that this "overlapping" work can be avoided.

In other words, the power of Strasssens algorithm comes from a strategy that's similar to / reminiscent of dynamic programming.

[kenjackson]

I think the original poster was referring to the AlphaEvolve variant of Strassen's, not the standard Strassen (with respect to complex values).