Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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)







