Mathematician:Karl Menger

Austrian-American mathematician who worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory.

Also contributed to game theory and social sciences.

Nationality
Austrian-American

History

 * Born: 13 January 1902 in Vienna, Austria
 * Died: 5 October 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Menger's Theorem
 * Menger Sponge
 * Cayley-Menger Determinant (with Arthur Cayley)
 * Menger-Urysohn Dimension (with Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn)
 * Erdős-Menger Conjecture (with Paul Erdős)

Books and Papers

 * 1924: Über die Dimensionalität von Punktmengen
 * 1928: Dimensiontheorie
 * 1932: Kurventheorie
 * 1932: Neuere Methoden und Probleme der Geometrie
 * 1973: Austrian Marginalism and Mathematical Economics
 * 1973: Austrian Marginalism and Mathematical Economics