Mathematician:Richard Ernest Bellman

Mathematician
American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 26 August 1920 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA
 * Died: 19 March 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Bellman Equation
 * Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation (with and )
 * Bellman-Ford-Moore Algorithm (with and )

Publications

 * 1949: A Survey of the Theory of the Boundedness, Stability, and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Linear and Nonlinear Differential and Difference Equations
 * 1954: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory of Time-Lag, Retarded Control, and Hereditary Processes
 * 1954: Dynamic Programming of Continuous Processes
 * 1957: Dynamic Programming
 * 1958: Some Aspects of the Mathematical Theory of Control Processes
 * 1959: Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Differential Equations
 * 1960: Introduction to Matrix Analysis
 * 1961: A Brief Introduction to Theta Functions
 * 1961: An Introduction to Inequalities
 * 1961: Adaptive Control Processes: A Guided Tour
 * 1961: Inequalities
 * 1962: Applied Dynamic Programming
 * 1963: Differential-difference equations
 * 1964: Perturbation Techniques in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering
 * 1965: Dynamic Programming and Modern Control Theory
 * 1967: Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Control Processes
 * 1970: Algorithms, Graphs and Computers
 * 1972: Dynamic Programming and Partial Differential Equations
 * 1982: Mathematical Aspects of Scheduling and Applications
 * 1983: Mathematical Methods in Medicine
 * 1984: Partial Differential Equations
 * 1984: Eye of the Hurricane: An Autobiography

Notable Quotes

 * If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem.
 * -- Apocryphal: quoted in : Notes on the Exercises