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Discovery of the Maxium Principle. (English) Zbl 1088.01011

Bolibruch, A.A. (ed.) et al., Mathematical events of the twentieth century. Transl. from the Russian. Berlin: Springer; Moscow: PHASIS (ISBN 3-540-23235-4/hbk). 85-99 (2006).
The story of formulations and proofs (1955–1978) of the Maximum Principle by Pontryagin, Boltyanskii, and Gamkrelidze.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1072.01002].

MSC:

01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
49J15 Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations
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