Richard Bellman

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Richard Ernest 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 in Los Alamos .

In 1946 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University . After receiving his doctorate, he initially stayed as an assistant professor at Princeton and became an associate professor of mathematics at Stanford University in 1948 . In 1952 he moved to Rand Corporation , where he worked on decision-making processes. His invention of dynamic programming in 1953 was an important breakthrough in this field, but also of great importance for numerous other areas such as e.g. B. bioinformatics . In 1965 he moved to the University of Southern California as a professor of mathematics , electrical engineering and medicine .

He published numerous essays, books and monographs . The Bellman algorithm , the Bellman and Ford algorithm and the Bellman optimality principle are named after him.

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 1975 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1976 he received the second John von Neumann Theory Prize . Since 1983 Bellman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Stability of differential equations. McGraw-Hill, New York NY et al. 1953 (Unabridged and unaltered republication of the 1953 edition. Dover Publishing, New York NY 1969; in Russian: Теория устойчивости решений дифференциальных уренциальных уранциальных уранциальных уравнато Ирмеренциальных уравнато 195меренциальных уравнато .
  • Dynamic programming. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1957 (also: ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14668-3 ; in Russian: Динамическое программирование и уравнения в часистных. Издател ьсрав, 1974).
  • Introduction to matrix analysis. McGraw Hill, New York NY et al. 1960 (2nd edition. Ibid 1970; also: (= Classics in Applied Mathematics. Vo. 12). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia PA 1995, ISBN 0-89871-346-3 ; in Russian language: 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: Dynamic programming and self-adapting control processes. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1967; in Russian: Процессы, регулирования с адаптацией. Издательства Издательства Наука, 196) .а,
  • Perturbation techniques in mathematics, physics and engineering . Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 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).
  • with 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 et al. 1963.
  • (from 2nd edition with Kenneth L. Cooke): Modern elementary differential equations. Addison-Wesley, Reading MA et al. 1968 (2nd edition. Ibid 1971; 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 et al. 1970, ISBN 0-12-084840-6 .
  • Methods in nonlinear analysis (= Mathematics in Science and Engineering. Vol. 61, 1-2). 2 volumes. Academic Press New York NY et al. 1970-1973, ISBN 0-12-084901-1 (Vol. 1), ISBN 0-12-084902-X (Vol. 2).
  • with Edward Angel: Dynamic programming and differential equations (= Mathematics in Science and Engineering. Vol. 88). Academic Press, New York NY et al. 1972, ISBN 0-12-057950-2 (In Russian: Динамическое программирование и уравнения в частных. Издательство мир, 1974).
  • with GM Wing: An Introduction to invariant imbedding. Wiley, New York NY et al. 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 et al. 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 et al. 1986, ISBN 90-277-2188-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bellman, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellmann, Richard Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician, inventor of dynamic programming
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1984
Place of death Los Angeles , California