A profit function is a function that focuses on business applications. The primary purpose for a business is to sell a product or service in order to make a profit, which is the revenue a company receives for selling a product or service less the cost for creating a product or service.
Publisher. A+E Networks. In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953.
The courts also made clear that if either of the Rosenbergs would admit to their espionage, they too could avoid execution, but the couple, loyal to their cause and riding a wave of public support, continued to adamantly state their innocence until their death on the day of June 19, 1953.