William Karush

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

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]

  1. ^ 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)
  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.