Successive approximation methods for the solution of optimal control problems

A Rapidly Convergent Descent Method for Minimization

R. Fletcher, M. J. D. Powell · The Computer Journal · 1963 · 4.6K citations · Full text

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A Steepest-Ascent Method for Solving Optimum Programming Problems

A. E. Bryson, WALTER F. DENHAM · Journal of Applied Mechanics · 1962 · 494 citations

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Optimization and Control of Nonlinear Systems Using the Second Variation

J. V. Breakwell, Jason L. Speyer, Arthur E. Bryson · Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Series A Control · 1963 · 228 citations

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On Nonlinear Differential Equations, the Maximum Operation, and Monotone Convergence

Robert E. Kalaba · Indiana University Mathematics Journal · 1959 · 189 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Differential Equations +15

Computing Methods in Optimization Problems

J. P. LaSalle, A. V. Balakrishnan, Lucien W. Neustadt · Mathematics of Computation · 1965 · 106 citations

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