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maximum-principle

20 notes carry this tag — 12 claims, 2 questions, 6 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does Boltyanskii's own 1994 primary account confirm Pesch & Plail's secondary summary of the Pontryagin naming-pressure testimony?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-11-06 · boltyanskii, pontryagin, pesch-plail, maximum-principle, credit-attribution
• Pesch & Plail's 2009 and 2012 retellings of Boltyanskii's naming-pressure testimony agree closely — self-consistency across two venues, not independent corroboration
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-11-06 · boltyanskii, pontryagin, pesch-plail, rozonoer, maximum-principle
• Pesch & Plail's 2012 paper reports direct statements from Boltyanskii and Gamkrelidze to the authors, not only a reading of the written 1994 report
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-11-06 · boltyanskii, gamkrelidze, pesch-plail, maximum-principle, credit-attribution
• Does Gamkrelidze's own account of the 1956 maximum principle describe the real division of labor, and why did only Pontryagin's name carry West of the Iron Curtain?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-11-05 · gamkrelidze, pontryagin, boltyanskii, mishchenko, maximum-principle
• The 1961 Russian monograph and its 1962 English translation credited all four Soviet co-authors on the book itself, even as the already-fixed convention named only Pontryagin's "principle"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-05 · pontryagin, boltyanskii, gamkrelidze, mishchenko, maximum-principle
• Boltyanskii's own reported testimony locates the "Pontryagin" naming convention inside a Soviet-side credit negotiation under pressure, settled within the Steklov Institute rather than in Western reception
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-11-05 · boltyanskii, pontryagin, gamkrelidze, maximum-principle, credit-attribution
• Gamkrelidze's own 2003 account divides the 1956 maximum-principle discovery into three named, distinct technical contributions
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-05 · gamkrelidze, pontryagin, boltyanskii, maximum-principle, optimal-control
• Does Boltyanskii's own 1994 primary account confirm Pesch & Plail's secondary summary of the Pontryagin naming-pressure testimony?
  question open 2026-11-05 · boltyanskii, pontryagin, maximum-principle, credit-attribution, verification
• Did Pontryagin's antisemitism and Soviet gatekeeping reputation shape the West's reception of his 1956 maximum principle?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-30 · pontryagin, optimal-control, maximum-principle, antisemitism, soviet-union
• Pontryagin's maximum principle reached Western growth economics within a year of translation — about sixteen years before his antisemitism became visible in the West
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-30 · pontryagin, optimal-control, maximum-principle, economics, citation-history
• Pontryagin's own communist orthodoxy, not Western antipathy toward him, limited the maximum principle's domestic Soviet economic uptake
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-30 · pontryagin, optimal-control, maximum-principle, soviet-union, economics
• Isaacs's recorded regret in Pesch & Plail's 'missed opportunities' survey is over dismissing his own 'tenet of transition' — not the 1963 Pontryagin near-miss
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-17 · rufus-isaacs, lev-pontryagin, priority-dispute, single-witness, documentary-source-criticism
• Fel'dbaum and Lerner's engineering focus on linear optimal control directly triggered Pontryagin's generalization into the maximum principle
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-09 · feldbaum, pontryagin, lerner, optimal-control, maximum-principle
• Does any record independent of Isaacs's own 1965 preface corroborate the 'few days' margin by which he says he missed Pontryagin's book?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-10-07 · rufus-isaacs, lev-pontryagin, priority-dispute, single-witness, documentary-source-criticism
• Isaacs's 1965 preface says he first saw Pontryagin's book just days after finishing his own manuscript in March 1963
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-01 · rufus-isaacs, lev-pontryagin, maximum-principle, differential-games, multiple-discovery
• A direct, unconditional discrete-time analogue of Pontryagin's maximum principle does not exist in general — the maximization condition can fail without added convexity
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · pontryagin, maximum-principle, optimal-control, discrete-time, convexity
• Rufus Isaacs's RAND research is credited with precursors of the maximum principle five years before Pontryagin — and RAND itself is an unrecognized bridge between the vault's Nash and Blackwell notes
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-22 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, differential-games, optimal-control, maximum-principle
• Rufus Isaacs's first RAND paper (1951) already contained precursors of the maximum principle, dynamic programming, and backward analysis — five years before Pontryagin's 1956 announcement
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, differential-games, optimal-control, maximum-principle
• Does Pontryagin's 1956 maximum-principle announcement genuinely predate Kelley (1960) as an independent Cold War discovery, and did Boltyanskii/Gamkrelidze/Mishchenko's 1956 work already contain the co-state/adjoint backward-gradient equation?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · pontryagin, kelley, bryson, optimal-control, maximum-principle
• The vault's exemplar blind mathematician, Pontryagin, is an unacknowledged root of backpropagation's optimal-control ancestry
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · pontryagin, optimal-control, maximum-principle, adjoint-method, costate