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,[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 | March 1, 1917 Chicago, IL |
| Died | February 22, 1997 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Known for | Contribution to Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | California State University at Northridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Magnus Hestenes |
Selected works edit
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ a b W. Karush (1939). Minima of Functions of Several Variables with Inequalities as Side Constraints (Thesis). M.Sc. Dissertation. Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.. Available from http://wwwlib.umi.com/dxweb/details?doc_no=7371591 (for a fee)
- ^ Kuhn, H. W.; Tucker, A. W. (1951). "Nonlinear programming". Proceedings of 2nd Berkeley Symposium. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 481–492.
- ^ "William Karush". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
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