RICHARD BELLMAN ON THE BIRTH OF DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
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“My first task in dynamic programming was to put it on. a rigorous basis. …. of dynamic programming to control processes of determin-. istic types. …
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RICHARD BELLMAN ON THE BIRTH OF
DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
STUART DREYFUS
University of California, Berkeley, IEOR, Berkeley, California 94720, dreyfus@ieor.berkeley.edu
What 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 approved extensive excerpting.
During the summer of 1949 Bellman, a tenured associate
professor of mathematics at Stanford…
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