Abstract
This special issue of the European Journal of Control is dedicated to V.M. Popov.
The years preceding 1960 witnessed the seeds of a true paradigm shift in the mathematical approach to control.
It was the birth of what would in later years be called modern control theory, or mathematical systems theory.
The influence in this scientific revolution of the work of Soviet scientists such as Pontryagin, Yacubovich, and US
scientists such as Kalman, Bellman, among others, is well-known and has been documented in many subsequent
publications. Less well-known, perhaps, to the younger generation of researchers, may be the deep impact of the
marvelous work of the Romanian electrical engineer V.M. Popov.
The years preceding 1960 witnessed the seeds of a true paradigm shift in the mathematical approach to control.
It was the birth of what would in later years be called modern control theory, or mathematical systems theory.
The influence in this scientific revolution of the work of Soviet scientists such as Pontryagin, Yacubovich, and US
scientists such as Kalman, Bellman, among others, is well-known and has been documented in many subsequent
publications. Less well-known, perhaps, to the younger generation of researchers, may be the deep impact of the
marvelous work of the Romanian electrical engineer V.M. Popov.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 181-182 |
| Journal | European Journal of Control |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |