Kawiarnia Szkocka

The Scottish Cafe

Kawiarnia Szkocka ( The Scottish Café ) was a café in Lviv , where the Polish Lviv math elite met in the 1920s and 1930s to discuss mathematical questions and their proposed solutions. The problems that could not be solved by any of the Lviv mathematicians at this time were finally summarized as the "Szkocka Księga" ( The Scottish Book ). The book is a kind of collection of unsolved or unsolvable mathematical problems. Sometimes bizarre prices are awarded.

Section of the Scottish Book with Banachs and Ulams Notes.

See also

• Rearrangement of rows : on problem 106 of the Scottish book ( Stefan Banach )
• Approximation property : on Problem 153 of the Scottish Book ( Stanisław Mazur )

Web links

• Scottish book
• English version of the Scottish Book (PDF) ( Memento from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (2.97 MB)
• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  The Scottish Cafe in Lvov. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
• Gian Carlo Rota The Lost Café , on Stanislaw Ulam and the Scottish Café, PDF file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Such as B. a live goose, the prize was "donated" by Stanisław Mazur in 1936 for a solution to a problem based on the theory of Banach spaces and in 1972 he personally handed it over to the Swedish mathematician Per Enflo .

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 8.6 "  N , 24 ° 1 ′ 56.8"  E