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This book is devoted to answering questions such as "How does one calculate what is desired without calculating a lot of data which is not?", by employing theories of dynamic programming and invariant imbedding.

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Main Authors: Bellman, Richard Ernest, 1920-1984. (Author)
Corporate Authors: World Scientific (Firm)
Published: World Scientific Pub. Co.,
Publisher Address: Singapore ; Philadelphia, PA. :
Publication Dates: 1985.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Series in modern applied mathematics ; v. 4
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Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/0122#t=toc
Summary: This book is devoted to answering questions such as "How does one calculate what is desired without calculating a lot of data which is not?", by employing theories of dynamic programming and invariant imbedding.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi,222pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789814415187
Index Number: QA300
CLC: O17
Contents: ch. I. Linear algebraic equations -- ch. II. Finding the square root of a positive definite matrix -- ch. III. Largest and smallest characteristic roots -- ch. IV. On the determination of characteristic values for a class of Sturm-Liouville problems -- ch. V. Linear differential equations with constant coefficients -- ch. VI. Linear differential equations with variable coefficients -- ch. VII. Nonlinear differential equations -- ch. VIII. Asymptotic behavior -- ch. IX. Partial differential equations and dynamic programming -- ch. X. Partial differential equations and invariant imbedding -- ch. XI. Maximum altitude -- ch. XII. Semigroups in space -- ch. XIII. Variational problems and functional equations -- ch. XIV. Allocation processes, lagrange multipliers and the maximum transform.