| We must realize that the essential purpose in formulating many of [the multi- stage allocation processes] of the universe, economic, physical, biological, or otherwise, is not so much to calculate numbers, which are in many cases of dubious value [...], but rather to determine the structure of the solution. Concepts are, in many processes, more important than constants. | |
Richard Bellman (1957) introducing the idea of Dynamic Programming |
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