Bellman and the Gardener - Bellman y el jardinero
Bellman and the Gardener 1953. Richard Bellman was on his way to his office at the University of Southern California when he happened to run into the gardener. They always used to chat for a while about insignificant topics, but that morning it occurred to him to ask the gardener what the term 'dynamic programming' sounded like. The gardener, very serious, told him that he already did dynamic programming. He told her that he programmed the pruning of the hedges by quarters and according to certain dates. He also normally examining the situation of the plants in the botanical garden and also took care of the greenhouse crops. Multiple tasks. When an event occurred that did not allow it to execute its programming (in time), it divided the problem into smaller problems and used the recursive technique (a process that is applied again to the result of having previously applied it) to solve the final problem. Bellman did not know what to answer, because everything the gardener had