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by SleekEagle
1529 days ago
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This is some insanely cool history! I had no idea the Soviets had such a technical vision, that's actually pretty amazing. I've heard the term "cybernetics" but honestly just thought it was some movie-tech term, lol. 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 remember a math professor of mine telling us about optimization techniques that control systems practitioners would know more about than applied mathematicians because they were developed specifically for the field, can't remember what the techniques were though ... |
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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...