We did both discrete and continuous Bellmans in my program. 

I think you explained it well but I also have studied these as though my life depended on it.

Hopefully you could follow the math?

I remember learning discrete time Bellman equations in my phd classes, but not continuous time ones.  I think I had to look those up later, despite a lot of important applications, like bitcoin mining.

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I was not expecting to see a Bellman equation today. Took me right back to studying for prelims