Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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)