isaacs

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Pesch & Plail's 2012 history narrates Cold War optimal control as two 'corners' — American (Hestenes/Isaacs/Bellman) and Soviet (Pontryagin, fed by Fel'dbaum) — without documenting contact between them

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-09 · feldbaum, pontryagin, hestenes, isaacs, bellman
Bipartite hop: does the cosine-0.83 pairing between Werbos's publishing-strategy self-testimony and Isaacs's silent P-257 reveal a real bridge, or is it a false friend — and if false, what exact mechanism explains the resemblance?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-01 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, argument-from-silence, jingle-fallacy, retrieval
Werbos (1988) pp. 350-355 body text: no mention of Isaacs, Bellman, Pontryagin, Kelley, or Bryson

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-26 · werbos, isaacs, bellman, pontryagin, kelley
Werbos's 1988 body text on pp. 350-355 (recurrent derivation, gas-model application, conclusion) names none of Isaacs, Bellman, Pontryagin, Kelley, or Bryson

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · werbos, isaacs, bellman, pontryagin, kelley
Werbos's 1988 reference list contains no Isaacs, Bellman, Pontryagin, Kelley, or Bryson; his documented control-theory lines run through Athans & Kalb (1966) and Oak Ridge adjoint sensitivity work

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-25 · werbos, isaacs, backpropagation, citation-analysis, negative-evidence
Does the unread body text of Werbos (1988), pp. 350-355, mention Isaacs, Bellman, Pontryagin, Kelley, or Bryson?

question open 2026-09-25 · werbos, isaacs, citation-analysis, primary-verification, unverified