The new logic

pp. 17-45

in: Karl Menger, Selected papers in logic and foundations, didactics, economics, Berlin, Springer, 1979

Abstract

In the spring of 1932, the economic and political situation in Austria had reached a point where it was virtually impossible to find academic employment even for the most talented students. Mathematics was especially hard hit. I keenly felt the general frustration in my Mathematical Colloquium in which I enjoyed the collaboration of, among others, F. Alt, K. Gödel, G. Nöbeling, and A. Wald.