bellman

The first week of classes the professors were talking about quasiconcavity and the Bellman equation.

In a hotel you expect some level of service (a bellman, a receptionist etc).

The curse of dimensionality has been with us ever since Bellman coined the phrase almost 60 years ago; it's not going away anytime soon.

Linear Algebra is the arithmetic of higher mathematics, like Bellman said.

There's a bunch of things that are cool(the course in 4th year on Control Theory for example: information that _quickly_ gets you to speed on RST digital controllers, Pontryagin, Bellman is pretty scarce).

It's one of the fastest ways to get a feeling for what the Bellman equation is, or convex optimization, or the different notions of consciousness, or the axiom of choice in set theory, or a morphism in category theory, Feynman diagrams, or a renormalization group, just to list a few things I've checked in 2013.

While Knuth may be regarded as "the man who invented dynamic programming", he was ten years old when Bellman discovered it.

It's incredibly useful once you "get it", but I don't trust anyone who tries to systematize it by trying to reduce it all down to Markov decision processes and the Bellman equation.

Dijkstra's algorithm is close enough to the Bellman equation for programmers, I guess:) Also I don't really think taking a Taylor series for the inverse square root should count as an "algorithm."

So, the work is a relatively routine application of classic work from optimization going way back, e.g., to Bellman.

For example, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation was Bellman's work.

An arbitrage opportunity is then a directed simple cycle with negative weight, which can easily be detected by Bellman-Ford.