(1930 – 2016)
Mathematician. Established the fundamentals of modern GPS navigation.
He was the developer of the Kálmán Filter. He made the greatest discovery in statistics in the 20th century. Kálmán filtering is also the method used in modern GPS (Global Positioning Systems) for navigation. Kálmán contributed to control theory and to applied mathematics as well as engineering in general.
Honors: among many others, the Kyoto Prize (1985), The American Mathematical Society’s Steele Prize (1986).
