Discovery of the Maximum Principle
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A short history of the discovery of the maximum principle in optimal control theory by L. S. Pontryagin and his associates is presented.
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Gives a short historical account of how Pontryagin and collaborators discovered the maximum principle in optimal control. The entry is useful as a primary recollection of the intellectual development behind one of the central necessary conditions in control theory.
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