William Karush (1 March 1917 – 22 February 1997) was an American 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,[. Available from http://wwwlib.umi.com/dxweb/details?doc_no=7371591 (for a fee)] although he became renowned after a seminal conference paper by Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker.
Early life
Sam and Tillie (formerly Shmuel and Tybel) Karush immigrated to the United States from
Bialystok, then under Russian control, now
Poland.
["William Karush and the KKT Theorem" by Richard W. Cottle. Documenta Mathematica, 2012] Karush was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 1, 1917. He graduated from Murray F. Tuley High School in 1934. He attended the Central YMCA College in Chicago for two years before transferring to University of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1938 and a Masters of Science in 1939. In 1942, he worked as a mathematician for the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. and from 1943-1956, he was employed by University of Chicago, while working on the Manhattan Project.
Selected works
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Webster's New World Dictionary of Mathematics, MacMillan Reference Books, Revised edition (April 1989),
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On the Maximum Transform and Semigroups of Transformations (1962), Richard Bellman, William Karush,
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The crescent dictionary of mathematics, general editor (1962) William Karush, Oscar Tarcov
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Isoperimetric problems & index theorems. (1942), William Karush, Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Chicago, department of mathematics.
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Minima of functions of several variables with inequalities as side conditions, William Karush. (1939), Thesis (M.S.) – University of Chicago, 1939.
See also
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Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
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Szilárd petition
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