mengerkarl Preliminary Inventory of the Karl Menger Papers, [ca. 1890]-2006 Processed by: Keary Warner; machine-readable finding aid created by: Walt Evans

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 Descriptive Summary Karl Menger Papers, [ca. 1890]-2006 Menger, Karl 29,500 Items 40.7 Linear Feet David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English and German. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Karl Menger Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

 Provenance

The Karl Menger Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1995.

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Initially Processed by Keary Warner

Completed August 6, 1996

Encoded by Walt Evans

Updated by Meghan Lyon, 2008

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 Biographical Note

Mathematician and professor at Notre Dame University.

 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Correspondence; notebooks; research and teaching notes; drafts of unpublished and published works; teaching materials; student theses; printed materials; and a few photographs.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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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. Contents of Collection Accession (1996-0004) 1 Correspondence 2 Correspondence 3 Writings and Speeches--Karl Menger 4 Writings and Speeches--Karl Menger; Writings and Speeches--Unidentified Authors and/or Fragments 5 Writings and Speeches--Unidentified Authors and/or Fragments 6 Writings and Speeches--Other Authors 7 Writings and Speeches--Other Authors 8 Writings and Speeches--Other Authors 9 Writings and Speeches--Other Authors 10 Writings and Speeches--Other Authors 11 Writings and Speeches--Other Authors 12 Writings and Speeches--Other Authors; Writings and Speeches--Drafts and Proofs 13 Writings and Speeches--Drafts and Proofs 14 Writings and Speeches--Drafts and Proofs 15 Writings and Speeches--Drafts and Proofs 16 Writings and Speeches--Drafts and Proofs 17 Research Notes 18 Research Notes 19 Notebooks 20 Notebooks 21 Notebooks; Clippings, Legal Papers, Financial Papers, Conference Files, Printed Materials, Photographs, and Miscellaneous Items 22 Vienna Circle Materials 23 Teaching Materials 24 Reingold Papers 25 Oversize Materials 26 Oversize Materials 27 Oversize Materials (Large, Stapled and/or Pasted Drafts) 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.

This addition (2007-0127) has been interfiled into Accession (2007-0142), Box 33.

 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.

 29 Calculus: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition, 1953 1921-1936 30 1937-1956 31 1957-1983 Obituaries Reviews (2 folders) Introductions Miscellaneous 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 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