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Richard E. Bellman

1920 - 1984

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Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and made important contributions in other fields of mathematics, such as biomathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard E. Bellman has received more than 302,301 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Richard E. Bellman is the 455th most popular mathematician (down from 409th in 2019), the 3,710th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,507th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.39

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  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard E. Bellman ranks 455 out of 1,004. Before him are Oscar Zariski, Yves Meyer, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Francesco Maurolico, Yang Hui, and William Thurston. After him are Edmund Gunter, Yuri Manin, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, William Kingdon Clifford, Adriaan van Roomen, and Ernst Schröder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Richard E. Bellman ranks 188. Before him are Georges Marchais, Celia Sánchez, Harold Sakata, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Lewis Gilbert, and Frances Ames. After him are Yves Robert, Cornelius Ryan, Gordon Gould, Koichi Tohei, Leo McKern, and Stan Ockers. Among people deceased in 1984, Richard E. Bellman ranks 107. Before him are Big Mama Thornton, Knut Nordahl, Paul Ben-Haim, Jüri Lossmann, Jorge Guillén, and Sergei Salnikov. After him are Titus Burckhardt, Giuseppe Colombo, Blagoje Marjanović, Gino Bianco, John Marley, and Fazıl Küçük.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard E. Bellman ranks 3,710 out of 20,380. Before him are Barry Bostwick (1945), Claire Trevor (1910), Linda McMahon (1948), Tim Buckley (1947), Howard Fast (1914), and William Thurston (1946). After him are Carlos Lopes (1947), Vince Gilligan (1967), Jon Krakauer (1954), Harris Yulin (1937), Mancur Olson (1932), and Sandra Faber (1944).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Richard E. Bellman ranks 26. Before him are Raymond Smullyan (1919), Richard Hamming (1915), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Jim Simons (1938), Whitfield Diffie (1944), and William Thurston (1946). After him are Isadore Singer (1924), Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Julia Robinson (1919), and John Tate (1925).

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