William Karush

William Karush
Born	March 1, 1917(1917-03-01)
Died	February 22, 1997(1997-02-22) (aged 79)
Known for	Contribution to Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions

William Karush (1 March 1917 – 22 February 1997) was a professor emeritus of California State University at Northridge and is a mathematician 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 thesis^[1], although he became renowned after a seminal conference paper by Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker.^[2]

Selected 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.^[1]

^ ^a ^b 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. . 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.