Front Cover; Dynamic Programming and the Calculus of Variations; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Chapter I. Discrete Dynamic Programming; Chapter II. The Classical Variational Theory; Chapter III. The Simplest Problem; Chapter IV. The Problem of Mayer; Chapter V. Inequality Constraints; Chapter VI. Problems with Special Linear Structures; Chapter VII. Stochastic and Adaptive Optimization Problems; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index.