Richard Ernest Bellman was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and made important contributions in other fields of mathematics, such as biomathematics. Wikipedia
Born: August 26, 1920, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Died: March 19, 1984 (age 63 years), Los Angeles, CA
Education: Princeton University (1943–1946), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1942–1943), Brooklyn College (1938–1941), and more
Awards: IEEE Medal of Honor
Parents: Pearl Saffian Bellman and John James Bellman
Thesis: On the Boundedness of Solutions of Non-Linear Differential and Difference Equations
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