!!!Menger, Karl

b. Vienna, Jan. 13, 1902, 
d. Chicago (USA), Oct. 5, 1985, mathematician; son of Karl  Menger von 
Wolfensgruen. 1928-1936 professor of geometry at the University of 
Vienna, member of the  Vienna Circle; emigrated in 1936, 1937-1946 
professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana 
(USA), from 1946 professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 
Chicago. His specialisation was topology, the study of geometrical 
properties and spatial relations. He was also interested in ethics and 
formal study of human relations.

!Publications
Dimensionstheorie, 1928; Kurventheorie, 1932.

!Literature
R. Einhorn, Vertreter der Mathematik und Geometrie an den Wr. Hochschulen 1900-1940, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1985; Almanach der Oe. Akad. 
d. Wiss. 136, 1986 (list of references); NDB.



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