Gamkrelidze, R. V. 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]. Reviewer: V. N. Saliĭ (Saratov) Cited in 4 Documents MSC: 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 49J15 Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations Keywords:maximum principle; ordinary differential equations; optimal control theory PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. V. Gamkrelidze}, in: Mathematical events of the twentieth century. Transl. from the Russian. Berlin: Springer; Moscow: PHASIS. 85--99 (2006; Zbl 1088.01011)