William Richard Joseph Cook, 10 April 1905 - 16 September 1987

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William Homan Thorpe: 1 April 1902-7 April 1986.

William Karush and the KKT Theorem Richard

This chapter is mainly about William Karush and his role in the Karush-KuhnTucker theorem of nonlinear programming. It tells the story of fundamental optimization results that he obtained in his master’s thesis: results that he neither published nor advertised and that were later independently rediscovered and published by Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker. The principal result – which concer...

Conrad Hal Waddington, 8 November 1905--26 September 1975.

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