William Karush

William Karush (1 March 1917 – 22 February 1997) was a professor of mathematics at California State University at Northridge and was a mathematician best known for his contribution to Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions. In his master's thesis he was the first to publish these necessary conditions for the inequality-constrained problem,[1] although he became renowned after a seminal conference paper by Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker.[2] He also worked as a physicist for the Manhattan Project, although he signed the Szilárd petition and became a peace activist afterwards.[3]

William Karush
Born(1917-03-01)March 1, 1917
Chicago, IL
DiedFebruary 22, 1997(1997-02-22) (aged 79)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Known forContribution to Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCalifornia State University at Northridge
Doctoral advisorMagnus Hestenes

Selected works
  • Webster's New World Dictionary of Mathematics, MacMillan Reference Books, Revised edition (April 1989), ISBN 978-0-13-192667-7
  • On the Maximum Transform and Semigroups of Transformations (1962), Richard Bellman, William Karush,
  • The crescent dictionary of mathematics, general editor (1962) William Karush, Oscar Tarcov
  • Isoperimetric problems & index theorems. (1942), William Karush, Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics.
  • Minima of functions of several variables with inequalities as side conditions, William Karush. (1939), Thesis (M.S.) – University of Chicago, 1939.[1]

See also

References
  1. W. Karush (1939). "Minima of Functions of Several Variables with Inequalities as Side Constraints". M.Sc. Dissertation. Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Cite journal requires |journal= (help). Available from http://wwwlib.umi.com/dxweb/details?doc_no=7371591 (for a fee)
  2. Kuhn, H. W.; Tucker, A. W. (1951). "Nonlinear programming". Proceedings of 2nd Berkeley Symposium. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 481–492.
  3. "William Karush". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2020-01-28.


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