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Jan 3, 2020 at 0:29 comment added user6976 Since he was a child.
Jan 3, 2020 at 0:24 comment added AlexArvanitakis ... from all that calculating?!
Jan 2, 2020 at 16:25 comment added user6976 @AlexArvanitakis: Pontryagin was absolutely blind.
Jan 2, 2020 at 16:12 comment added AlexArvanitakis @MarkSapir: I should hope most people who do hard calculations don't suffer from mental illness!
Jan 1, 2020 at 20:06 comment added user6976 He was very mentally sick at the end of his life (I think it is the result of lots of hard calculations in applied math). But what he did in mathematics is hard to overestimate.
Jan 1, 2020 at 20:04 comment added Igor Rivin And, unfortunately, when I think of his name, one word dominates all others, and it is not "optimal control".
Jan 1, 2020 at 20:03 comment added Igor Rivin Interesting! I had no idea...
Jan 1, 2020 at 20:01 comment added user6976 @IgorRivin: everything he did after 1950 (approximately). Pontryagin max principle for example. Optimal control and so on.
Jan 1, 2020 at 19:55 comment added Igor Rivin What did he do which was applied?
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