William Karush was a professor emeritus of California State University at Northridge and is a mathematician

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 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, although he became renowned after a seminal conference paper by Harold W. Kuhn

Harold W. Kuhn

Harold William Kuhn is an American mathematician who studied game theory. He won the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize along with David Gale and Albert W. Tucker...

 and Albert W. Tucker

Albert W. Tucker

Albert William Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming....

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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
  Richard Bellman
  Richard Ernest Bellman was an American applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.-Biography:...
  
  , 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
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
  , Department of Mathematics.

• Minima of functions of several variables with inequalities as side conditions, William Karush. (1939), Thesis (M.S.
  Master of Science
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  ) – University of Chicago, 1939.

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