Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Richard E. Bellman
Born: August 26, 1920
Died: March 19, 1984 (aged 63)
Bio: Richard Ernest Bellman was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.
Known for:
- Introduction to Matrix Analysis (1960)
- Stability theory of differential equations (1953)
- Brief introduction to theta functions (1961)
- Modern elementary differential equations (1968)
- Algorithms, graphs, and computers (1970)