R. E. Kalman

Rudolf Emil Kalman was an American mathematician of Hungarian descent. The Budapest-born scientist fled WW2 with his family in 1943 and immigrated to the U.S. He lived a long life dedicated to research mathematics until he passed away in 2016, leaving a rich legacy of applied mathematics in signal processing, control systems, and navigation. Kalman earned his B.Sc degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently attended postgraduate studies at Columbia University, where he received …