Quote of the day
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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)