attending- his lectures b e f o r e
Christmas, could hear Dr. Menger
muttering about the inadequacy of
standard erasers. This has all been
changed, however. “Santa Claus
vas goot to you dis year,” ex-
claimed the ecstatic calculus wiz»
ard as he proudly wiped the board
clean with a monstrous chemically
, treated eraser. “He has left me dis
eraser in my stocking,” he ex-
plained.
Dr. Menger’s clothes do not seem
to keep a press very long. Due to
l his extreme exertions at the black-
board, even the creases in his suit

develop curves. His ties are never

a distinctive part of his dress, but
':s.one day last week he seemed to be
at a loss all day and his students
firmly believed that it was because
he had forgotten to wear one.
Dr. Monger received his

PhD. from the University of

Vienna in his native Austria

and was made a professor in

1927.

In 1930, Dr. Monger came to the
United States as a guest lecturer.
During the year that he was here,
he spent “a memorable New Year’s
Day with the internationally fa-
mous mathematician, E. H. Moore.”
On his return, he-rwent westward
to Japan, and thence home to the
dark Austria of 1932. In 1936,
Notre Dame sent him an attractive
offer, and the doctor packed once
again, this time taking his recently
acquired family with him. After
one year at the university he was
made chairman of the mathematics
department. During the war he
was in charge of the mathematics
training of the second largest
group of Navy V-lZ students in

 

By Alan Plait
Meet the instructor that can fill a blackboard and erase it faster
than anyone on campus—Karl Monger, professor in the Mathe—
matics department. As he paced nervously back and forth in front
of the boards in the MC auditorium, students in the first ten rows,

 

the country. Chicago and HT at-
tracted Dr. Monger in 1946 and
he came here to live as a perma~
nent resident.

Ever since his arrival in this
country the professor has been
prolific in more ways than one.
Last year, for example, he had
eight books and articles for
mathematic journals published,
including a contribution to the
book, “Einstein, Philosopher
Scientist.” Almost every stu-
dent of third semester stand-
ing or higher is acquainted
with his ”The Concept of a
Function.”

With his advent at UT, the doc-
tor has had less administrative
duties and more time to devote to
his first love, the theory of curves
and dimensions. He is the pro-
pounder of the profound Universal
curve, which resembles a cube with
a lot of holes in it. The'theory
holds that a curve of any dimen—
sion can be made a part of the Uni—
vcrsal curve. “It iss 20 simple
you can vork it almost mitout
pencil und paper.” (That’s all right,
I don’t understand it either.)

It is in the classroom, however,
that the professor really shines

‘through the student. It is reported

that Dr. Menger is ambidextrous.
Some rabid students claim that, as
he paces in front of the black
boards, he writes going in both
directions. When this writer at-
tended his calculus class, he could
have sworn that this was the case,
but “his hand is quicker than my
eye. So, as the professor would
say, “Und dot iss dot."

 

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