edited by Robert S Roth (Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Massachusetts, Cambridge)

This volume is a collection of some of the most significant mathematical works of Prof Richard E Bellman. Ten areas of Prof Bellman's mathematical research were selected by his co-workers for this volume. Each chapter starts with an introductory comment on the significance of Bellman's contribution. Some important mathematical theories are put forward and their applications in physics and biology such as the mathematical aspect of chemotherapy and the analysis of biological systems are included in this book.

• Richard Ernest Bellman
• Dynamic Programming
• Differential-Difference Equations
• Invariant Imbedding
• Radiative Transfer
• Mathematical Biology
• Quasilinearization
• Stochastic Processes and Stochastic Differential Equations
• The Identification of Systems
• Mathematics, Man and Society