Richard E. Bellman

Richard Bellman ( born August 29, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, † March 19, 1984 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American mathematician.

Life

Bellman studied mathematics at Brooklyn College (BA ) and the University of Wisconsin ( MA). He worked in the field of theoretical physics at Los Alamos.

In 1946 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. After his graduation he remained as Assistant Professor at Princeton and in 1948 Associate Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. In 1952, he joined the Rand Corporation, where he focused on decision-making processes. His invention of dynamic programming in 1953 was a major breakthrough in this field, but also of great importance for numerous other areas such as bioinformatics. In 1965 he became professor of mathematics, electrical engineering and medicine at the University of Southern California.

He has published numerous articles, books and monographs. According to him, the Bellman algorithm, the algorithm of Bellman and Ford and the optimality principle of Bellman are named.

In 1966 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow (Dynamic Programming and Modern Control Theory). In 1970 he received the first Norbert Wiener Prize and the first Dickson Prize in Science. In 1976 he was awarded the second John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Writings

  • Stability of differential equations. McGraw- Hill, New York, NY, among others 1953 ( Unabridged and unaltered republication of the 1953 edition Dover Publishing, New York NY 1969 in Russian:. Теория устойчивости решений дифференциальных уравнен Издательство Иностранной Литературы, Москва 1954. ).
  • Dynamic Programming. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1957 ( See also: ibid, 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14668-3, in Russian: мир Динамическое программирование и уравнения в частных Издательство, Москва 1974. ).
  • Introduction to matrix analysis. McGraw Hill, New York, NY, among others, 1960 ( 2nd edition 1970 ibid, also:. ( = Classics in Applied Mathematics Vo 12) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA 1995, ISBN 0-89871-346-3; into. .. Russian: Введение в теорию матриц Издательство Наука, Москва 1976)..
  • A Brief Introduction to Theta Functions. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York NY 1961.
  • Adaptive Control Processes. A guided tour. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1961 ( in German language: dynamic programming and adaptive control processes Oldenbourg, Munich, and others 1967; Russian language. Процессы, регулирования с адаптацией Издательство Наука, Москва 1964. ).
  • With Edwin Beckenbach: Introduction to Inequalities ( New Mathematical Library Vol = 3. ). Random House, New York NY, 1961 ( In Russian: . Введение в неравенства Издательство мир, Москва 1965).
  • Stuart E. Dreyfus, Applied dynamic programming. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1962 ( In Russian: . Прикладные задачи динамического программирования Издательство Наука, Москва 1965).
  • With Kenneth L. Cooke: Differential - Difference Equations ( Mathematics in Science and Engineering = Vol 6, ISSN 0076-5392. ). Academic Press, New York, NY and Others 1963.
  • ( 2nd edition with Kenneth L. Cooke ): Modern elementary differential equations. Addison -Wesley, Reading MA, among others, 1968 ( 2nd edition 1971, ibid; . Unabridged, slightly corrected republishing of the 2nd edition Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1995, ISBN 0-486-68643-4. ).
  • With Kenneth L. Cooke and Jo Anne Lockett Algorithms, Graphs and Computers ( = Mathematics in Science and Engineering Vol. 62). Academic Press, New York, NY, among others, 1970, ISBN 0-12-084840-6.
  • Methods in nonlinear analysis ( = Mathematics in Science and Engineering Vol. 61, 1-2). 2 vols. Academic Press New York NY, inter alia, 1970-1973, ISBN 0-12-084901-1 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-12-084902- X (Vol. 2).
  • Edward Angel: Dynamic programming and differential equations ( = Mathematics in Science and Engineering, Vol 88. ). Academic Press, New York, NY, inter alia, 1972, ISBN 0-12-057950-2 ( In Russian: . Динамическое программирование и уравнения в частных Издательство мир, Москва 1974).
  • GM Wing: An Introduction to invariant imbedding. Wiley, New York, NY, among others, 1975, ISBN 0-471-06416-5.
  • Introduction to artificial intelligence. Can computers think? Boyd & Fraser, San Francisco CA 1978, ISBN 0-87835-066-7.
  • With George Adomian: Partial Differential Equations. New methods For their treatment and solution ( = Mathematics and its Applications Vol. 15). Reidel Publishing, Dordrecht, 1985, ISBN 90-277-1681-1.
  • Selective Computation. World Scientific, Singapore, among others, 1985, ISBN 9971-966-86-7.
  • With Robert S. Roth: Techniques in approximation. Methods for mathematical modeling ( = Mathematics and its Applications. Vol. 26 ). Reidel Publishing, Dordrecht, among other things, 1986, ISBN 90-277-2188-2.
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