> It seems really weird that control theory is in EE departments considering it's sooo much more mathematical than most EE subdisciplines except signals processing.
I agree, apparently Bellman's reasoning for calling dynamic programming what it is was because he needed grant funding during the Cold War days and was advised to give his mathematical theories a more "interesting" name.
The generalised form of the Bellman Equation (co-formulated by Kalman of the Kalman filters fame) to control theory and EE is in some ways what the Maximum Likelihood function is to ML.
Looks really cool, added to my amazon cart. Thanks for the rec!
That hilarious and sadly insightful. I remember thinking "what the hell is so 'dynamic' about this?" the first time I learned about dynamic programming. Although "memoitative programming" sounds pretty fancy too, lol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8417882
> It seems really weird that control theory is in EE departments considering it's sooo much more mathematical than most EE subdisciplines except signals processing.
I agree, apparently Bellman's reasoning for calling dynamic programming what it is was because he needed grant funding during the Cold War days and was advised to give his mathematical theories a more "interesting" name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History
The generalised form of the Bellman Equation (co-formulated by Kalman of the Kalman filters fame) to control theory and EE is in some ways what the Maximum Likelihood function is to ML.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Jacobi%E2%8...