Bellman may refer to: *

Town crier A town crier, also called a bellman, is an officer of a royal court or public authority who makes public pronouncements as required. Duties and functions The town crier was used to make public announcements in the streets. Criers often dre ...

, an officer of the court who makes public pronouncements *

Bellhop A bellhop (North America), or hotel porter (international), is a hotel employee who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out. Bellhops often wear a uniform, like certain other page boys or doormen. This occupation is also know ...

, a hotel porter *

Bellman (surname) Bellman is a surname. A variant of the surname is Belman. Notable people with the surname include: * Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), Swedish poet and composer * Dmitriy Bellman (born 1977), Russian artist jeweller *Gina Bellman (born 1966), N ...

Bellman (diving) A diving team is a group of people who work together to conduct a diving operation. A characteristic of professional diving is the specification for minimum personnel for the diving support team. This typically specifies the minimum number of su ...

, a standby diver and diver's attendant *

Bellman hangar The Bellman Hangar was designed in the United Kingdom in 1936 by the Directorate of Works structural engineer, N. S. Bellman, as a temporary aircraft hangar capable of being erected or dismantled by unskilled labour with simple equipment and to b ...

, a prefabricated, portable aircraft hangar *

Bellman's Head Bellman's Head is a headland point comprising the northern boundary of Stonehaven Bay in Stonehaven, Scotland.United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map, Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale 2004 The corresponding headland at the so ...

, a headland point in Stonehaven Bay, Scotland

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* ''The Bellman'' (film), a 1945 French drama film * ''The Bellman'' (literary magazine), a 1906–1919 American periodical *

The Bellman (character) The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels ''The Eyre Affair'', '' Lost in a Good Book'', '' The Well of Lost Plots'', '' Something Rotten'', '' First Among Sequels'', '' One of Our Thursdays Is Missing'' and '' The ...

, a character in the ''Thursday Next'' novels * "Bellman", a character in Lewis Carroll's poem ''

The Hunting of the Snark ''The Hunting of the Snark'', subtitled ''An Agony, in Eight Fits'', is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eig ...

'' *

Bellman Prize The Bellman Prize () is a literature prize for "an outstanding Swedish poet" awarded yearly by the Swedish Academy () The prize was first established by Anders Zorn Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish ...

, a literature prize awarded by the Swedish Academy *

Bellman joke The Bellman joke is a type of simple joke cycle popular among Swedish schoolchildren, always including a person named Bellman as the main character. The jokes first became popular in the 19th century, and were originally inspired by the life of ...

, a type of Swedish joke *

Zvončari Zvončari ("bellmen") is the characteristic folk custom maintained in the region around Rijeka, Croatia. It was added to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. The custom dates to Slavic pagan ant ...

, a Croatian folk custom

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Bellman equation A Bellman equation, named after Richard E. Bellman, is a necessary condition for optimality associated with the mathematical Optimization (mathematics), optimization method known as dynamic programming. It writes the "value" of a decision problem ...

, a condition for optimality in dynamic programming *

Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that provides necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality of a control with respect to a loss function. Its solution is the value function of the opti ...

, a condition for optimality of a control with respect to a loss function *

Bellman–Ford algorithm The Bellman–Ford algorithm is an algorithm that computes shortest paths from a single source vertex (graph theory), vertex to all of the other vertices in a weighted digraph. It is slower than Dijkstra's algorithm for the same problem, but more ...

, a method for finding shortest paths

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