Bellman
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- Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish poet and composer.
- Richard Bellman was an American mathematician.
In Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, the Bellman is the leader of the Snark hunting trip. He is a fine speaker, a handsome and inspiring man, but a rather poor sailor.
This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
- That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tinkle his bell.
A bellman can also be a name for a bellhop.
In relation with Reinforcement_learning, the Bellman equation expresses the value function in relation with an observation of itself and the reward.
<math>V(s)=E[R + gamma V(s')]<math>
The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation gives a value function in continuous time and space.