Preliminary Inventory of the Karl Menger Papers, [ca. 1890]-2006
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleKarl Menger Papers,
[ca. 1890]-2006
Creator
Menger, Karl
Extent
29,500
Items
40.7 Linear Feet
Repository
40.7 Linear Feet
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English and
German.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsCollection is open for research.
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Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have
not been transferred to Duke University. For more
information, consult the copyright section of the
Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Karl Menger Papers,
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library,
Duke University.
Provenance
The Karl Menger Papers were received by the Rare
Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift
in 1995.
Processing Information
Initially Processed by Keary Warner
Completed August 6, 1996
Encoded by Walt Evans
Updated by Meghan Lyon, 2008
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
Mathematician and professor at Notre Dame University.
[top]Collection Overview
Correspondence; notebooks; research and teaching
notes; drafts of unpublished and published works; teaching
materials; student theses; printed materials; and a few
photographs. Mathematical subjects include curves theory,
algebra, geometry, and the philosophy of mathematics. Many
letters are from notable scientists; those written to
Menger during World War II often comment on the hardships
of colleagues still in Europe. Includes biographical
materials relating to Karl Menger and to his father, the
Austrian economist Carl Menger, and materials related to
the history of the Vienna Circle (1920s-1930s), a group of
scholars concerned with philosophy and science. Notebooks
relate to Menger's early work as a student, and later notes
on mathematical theory. Printed items include many European
and American scientific reprints, textbooks, study manuals,
and school publications.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Menger, Karl, 1902-1985.
- Menger, Carl, 1840-1921.
- University of Notre Dame.
- Economists--Austria Biography.
- Vienna circle--History.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Algebra.
- Curves.
- Geometry.
- Economics--History.
- Philosophy and science.
- Scientists--Europe Correspondence.
- Mathematicians--Austria.
- Mathematicians--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Europe--Emigration and immigration.
- Germany--History--1918-1933.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
 |  | Accession (1996-0004) | ||||||
 | | Accession (2007-0127), 2006 | ||||||
 | | Accession (2007-0142), 1921-1985 | ||||||
Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Accession (1996-0004)
Correspondence
Box 2
Correspondence
Box 3
Writings and Speeches--Karl
Menger
Box 4
Writings and Speeches--Karl Menger;
Writings and Speeches--Unidentified Authors and/or
Fragments
Box 5
Writings and Speeches--Unidentified
Authors and/or Fragments
Box 6
Writings and Speeches--Other
Authors
Box 7
Writings and Speeches--Other
Authors
Box 8
Writings and Speeches--Other
Authors
Box 9
Writings and Speeches--Other
Authors
Box 10
Writings and Speeches--Other
Authors
Box 11
Writings and Speeches--Other
Authors
Box 12
Writings and Speeches--Other
Authors; Writings and Speeches--Drafts and
Proofs
Box 13
Writings and Speeches--Drafts and
Proofs
Box 14
Writings and Speeches--Drafts and
Proofs
Box 15
Writings and Speeches--Drafts and
Proofs
Box 16
Writings and Speeches--Drafts and
Proofs
Box 17
Research Notes
Box 18
Research Notes
Box 19
Notebooks
Box 20
Notebooks
Box 21
Notebooks; Clippings, Legal Papers,
Financial Papers, Conference Files, Printed Materials,
Photographs, and Miscellaneous Items
Box 22
Vienna Circle Materials
Box 23
Teaching Materials
Box 24
Reingold Papers
Box 25
Oversize Materials
Box 26
Oversize Materials
Box 27
Oversize Materials (Large, Stapled
and/or Pasted Drafts)
Box 28
Oversize Materials (Large, Stapled
and/or Pasted Drafts)
Accession (2007-0127), 2006
2 Audiocassettes
The addition (2007-0127) (2 items; interfiled with addition 2007-0142; 2006) consists of 2 audiocassettes and a transcript of an interview with Abe Sklar, discussing Karl Menger, his colleague.
Accession (2007-0142), 1921-1985
5 Boxes
The addition (2007-0142) (1000 items; 2.7 lin. ft.; 1921-1985) consists largely of reprints from Karl Menger and Carl Menger, organized chronologically. There are also copies of Karl Menger's calculus texts. Some of the material is in German. This is, allegedly, one of the most complete collections of Menger's writings available.
Box 29
Calculus: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition, 1953
1921-1936
Box 30
1937-1956
Box 31
1957-1983
Obituaries
Reviews
(2 folders)
Introductions
Miscellaneous
Box 32
V-12 Notre Dame photocopies
Understanding Calculus, Part II, 1950
The Concept of a Function, 1948
Department of Math graduate degrees (Illinois Institute Tech.)
Calculus: A Modern Approach, 1952
Understanding Calculus, Part I, 1950
Educational Studies in Mathematics, vol. 4, no. 1, June 1971
Introduction to Calculus, Part I, 1950
Calculus the Elements: Introduction Into Pre-limit Calculus for Everyone, 1966
Calculus the Elements: Introduction Into Pre-limit Calculus for Everyone, Chapter II, 1967
Untersuchungen uber allgemeire Metrik, date unknown
Basic Concepts of Mathematics, 1957
Galois Theory (by Emil Artin), 1942
Algebra of Analysis, 1944
Nomography ..., 1944
Hahn: Die Krise der Anschauung, 1933
Alte Probleme - Neue Losungen in den Exakten Wissenschaften, 1934
Neuere Fortschritte in den Exakten Wissenschaften, 1936
The New Logic, 1937
Box 33
Carl Mengers Erster Entwurf zu seinum Hauptwerk
"Grundsatze"
, 1963
On the Principles of Statistical Interference (by Abraham Ward), 1952
Reports of a Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 1, 1939
Reports of a Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 2, 1940
Reports of a Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 3, 1941
Reports of a Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 4, date unknown
Reports of a Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 5-6, 1944
Reports of a Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 7, 1946
Reports of a Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 8, 1948
Accession (2007-0127): 2 audiocassettes and a transcript of an interview with Abe Sklar, 2006
