William Karush

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name = William Karush


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birth_date = Birth date|1917|03|01
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death_date = Death date and age|1997|02|22|1917|03|01
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known_for = Contribution to Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions
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William Karush (Born 1917-03-01 , died 1997-02-22) was a professor emeritus of California State University at Northridge and is a mathematican best known for his contribution to Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. He was the first to publish the necessary conditions for the inequality constrained problem in his Masters thesiscite paper|author=W. Karush|title=Minima of Functions of Several Variables with Inequalities as Side Constraints
version=M.Sc. Dissertation|publisher=Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois|date=1939. 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. [cite conference
first = H. W.
last = Kuhn
coauthors = Tucker, A. W.
booktitle = Proceedings of 2nd Berkeley Symposium
pages = 481-492
title=Nonlinear programming
publisher = University of California Press
date = 1951
location = Berkeley]

elected works

* Webster's New World Dictionary of Mathematics, MacMillan Reference Books, Revised edition (April 1989), ISBN 978-0131926677

* On the Maximum Transform and Semigroups of Transformations (1998), 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.

* Minima of functions of several variables with inequalities as side conditions. (1939), William Karush, Thesis (S.M.)--University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics (UoC).

See also

* Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions
* Szilárd petition

References