William Karush
William Karush | |
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 Karush wearing a Beyond War lapel pin. | |
| 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 |
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]
Early life
[edit]Sam and Tillie (formerly Shmuel and Tybel) Karush immigrated to the United States from Bialystok, then under Russian control, now Poland.[4] 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
[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.
- ^ "William Karush and the KKT Theorem" by Richard W. Cottle. Documenta Mathematica, 2012
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