Richard Bellman
Richard Bellman · Technology & Engineering
Invented dynamic programming.
1920, New York City, United States — 1984, Los Angeles, California, United States
United States
Richard Bellman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Invented dynamic programming.
Bellman invented dynamic programming, a method for solving complex optimization problems that underpins fields from operations research and economics to computer science and bioinformatics; he also named the 'curse of dimensionality.' The Bellman equation is central to modern control theory and reinforcement learning. He was born to a Jewish family.
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Invented dynamic programming.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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