Richard Bellman, "Dynamic Programming"
Pages: 365 | Publisher: Princeton 1957 | ISBN:069107951X | English | Djvu | 3.3 MB
An introduction to the mathematical theory of multistage decision processes, this text takes a "functional equation" approach to the discovery of optimum policies. The text examines existence and uniqueness theorems, the optimal inventory equation, bottleneck problems in multistage production processes, a new formalism in the calculus of variation, multistage games, and more.