The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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Abstract: A class of finite time horizon optimal control problems with nonlinear dynamics and non-quadratic costs is considered. Stat-quad duality is used to transform the problem into a canonical ...