Pontryagin maximum principle (1956)

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Pontryagin-Boltyanskii-Gamkrelidze-Mishchenko 1956 maximum principle: optimal control u*(t) maximizes Hamiltonian H(x, p, u); foundation of optimal-control theory + reinforcement-learning.

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Ordinary differential equation (ODE)

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