Bellman
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- Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish poet and composer.
- Richard Bellman was an American mathematician.
In Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, the Bellman is the leader of the Snark hunting trip. He is a fine speaker, a handsome and inspiring man, but a rather poor sailor.
This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out
- That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tingle his bell.
Carroll's Bellman also appears in Jasper Fforde's novel The Well of Lost Plots as the head of Jurisfiction.
A bellman or belman is a type of Town Crier
A bellman can also be a name for a bellhop.
In relation with Reinforcement learning, the Bellman equation expresses the value function in relation with an observation of itself and the reward.
V(s) = E[R + gammaV(s')]
The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation gives a value function in continuous time and space.
Belman is an Autralian guitar maker.