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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 283,620 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard E. Bellman is the 410th most popular mathematician (down from 405th in 2019), the 3,517th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,307th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard E. Bellman ranks 410 out of 823. Before him are Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Bruno Abakanowicz, Hermann Hankel, Daniele Barbaro, Yakov Sinai, and Stephen Cole Kleene. After him are Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Heisuke Hironaka, Ernest William Brown, Diocles, Luigi Cremona, and Viggo Brun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Richard E. Bellman ranks 170. Before him are Marlen Haushofer, Giuseppe Colombo, Thomas Gold, James Doohan, Georges Marchais, and John Maynard Smith. After him are Schubert Gambetta, Stan Ockers, Machiko Hasegawa, Josip Manolić, Marie Tharp, and Cornelius Ryan. Among people deceased in 1984, Richard E. Bellman ranks 97. Before him are Knut Nordahl, Christa Schroeder, Giuseppe Colombo, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Karl-August Fagerholm, and Maximilian Fretter-Pico. After him are Ernesto Mascheroni, Trygve Bratteli, Big Mama Thornton, Adam Malik, Ansel Adams, and Walter Pidgeon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard E. Bellman ranks 3,517 out of 18,182. Before him are Tracey Adams (1958), Sam Francis (1923), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), Alan Perlis (1922), Natacha Rambova (1897), and Vince Vaughn (1970). After him are William P. Rogers (1913), Peter Senge (1947), Lisa Edelstein (1966), Jensen Ackles (1978), Charles Jencks (1939), and Dominic Chianese (1931).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Richard E. Bellman ranks 25. Before him are Edward Kasner (1878), John G. Thompson (1932), Jim Simons (1938), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Julia Robinson (1919), and Stephen Cole Kleene (1909). After him are Whitfield Diffie (1944), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), George David Birkhoff (1884), William Thurston (1946), Haskell Curry (1900), and Isadore Singer (1924).

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