Richard Ernest Bellman

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Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming

W follows concerns events from the summer of 1949, when Richard Bellman first became interested in multistage decision problems, until 1955. Although Bellman died on March 19, 1984, the story will be told in his own words since he left behind an entertaining and informative autobiography, Eye of the Hurricane (World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 1984), whose publisher has generously...

Ernest Blacker

The uniqueness of individuals is a striking scientific fact, but it is just one of those facts that can hardly be done justiceto in an obituary notice. In writing this brief memoir of my departed friend, Ernest Blacker, I am regretfully conscious of this shortcoming. It may, however, be stated that his was a cheery, neat, alert and debonair personality, rich in human sympathies and sociabilitie...

On a New Functional Transform in Analysis: the Maximum Transform by Richard Bellman and William Karush

(1) F(xu x2, • • • , xN) = fi(xi) + f2(x2) + +/N(XN) over the region R defined by xi+x2 + • • • +XN = X> x^O. Under various assumptions concerning the ƒ», this problem can be studied analytically; cf. Karush [ l ; 2] , and it can also be treated analytically by means of the theory of dynamic programming [3]. I t is natural in this connection to introduce a "convolution" of two functions ƒ and g...

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