From chemotherapy to computers to trajectories.

Richard Ernest Bellman

Expert InsightsPublished 1961

An extermination of the development of a method of handling two-point boundary problems occurring in trajectory analysis from its inception in connection with the computational treatment of a mathematical model of chemotherapy. By adopting this over-all viewpoint, maximum use can be made of the abstract qualities of mathematics, and by insisting on a complete and unified solution, new and important special properties are uncovered.

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Bellman, Richard Ernest, From chemotherapy to computers to trajectories. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1961. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2303.html.
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