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Kalman's 1960 Moscow paper, not a Pontryagin/Bellman/Kelley/Bryson citation line, is the documented bridge between classical and optimal control

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-24 · control-theory, kalman, optimal-control, pontryagin, bellman
Does Liang Zhongtang's unnamed '1978 academic visit to Europe' correspond to the 1978 IFAC World Congress in Helsinki that Greenhalgh's account names?

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-08-14 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
A 2022 Palladium Magazine essay independently places Song Jian at the 1978 IFAC World Congress in Helsinki

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-14 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
A University of Twente mathematician's own eyewitness account confirms meeting Song Jian at the 1978 IFAC congress in Helsinki

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-14 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
IFAC's own institutional record confirms the 7th World Congress was held in Helsinki in 1978, upgrading a Wikipedia-sourced fact to Tier 1

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, cold-war-science, cybernetics
Does Liang Zhongtang's unnamed '1978 academic visit to Europe' correspond to the 1978 IFAC World Congress in Helsinki that Greenhalgh's account names?

question open 2026-08-13 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science