https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Caf\xe9 Scottish Cafe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Picture of the building that used to house the Scottish Cafe The Scottish Cafe's building now houses the Szkocka Restaurant & Bar (named for the original Scottish Cafe) and the Atlas Deluxe hotel. [220px-KsiegaSzkocka1] Part of the Scottish Book with Banach's and Ulam's notes. The Scottish Cafe (Polish: Kawiarnia Szkocka) was a cafe in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) where, in the 1930s and 1940s, mathematicians from the Lwow School of Mathematics collaboratively discussed research problems, particularly in functional analysis and topology. Stanislaw Ulam recounts that the tables of the cafe had marble tops, so they could write in pencil, directly on the table, during their discussions. To keep the results from being lost, and after becoming annoyed with their writing directly on the table tops, Stefan Banach 's wife provided the mathematicians with a large notebook, which was used for writing the problems and answers and eventually became known as the Scottish Book. The book--a collection of solved, unsolved, and even probably unsolvable problems--could be borrowed by any of the guests of the cafe. Solving any of the problems was rewarded with prizes, with the most difficult and challenging problems having expensive prizes (during the Great Depression and on the eve of World War II), such as a bottle of fine brandy.^[1] For problem 153, which was later recognized as being closely related to Stefan Banach's "basis problem", Stanislaw Mazur offered the prize of a live goose. This problem was solved only in 1972 by Per Enflo, who was presented with the live goose in a ceremony that was broadcast throughout Poland.^[2] The cafe building now houses the Szkocka Restaurant & Bar (named for the original Scottish Cafe) and the Atlas Deluxe hotel at the street address of 27 Taras Shevchenko Prospekt. See also[edit] The following mathematicians were associated with the Lwow School of Mathematics or contributed to The Scottish Book: * Stefan Banach * Karol Borsuk * Marek Kac * Stefan Kaczmarz * Bronislaw Knaster * Kazimierz Kuratowski * Stanislaw Saks * Juliusz Schauder * Hugo Steinhaus * Stanislaw Ulam * Gus Ward References[edit] 1. ^ Mauldin, ed. 2. ^ Mauldin, ed.; Kaluza. * Kaluza, Roman (1996). Ann Kostant and Wojbor Woyczynski (ed.). Through a reporter's eyes: The life of Stefan Banach. Birkhauser. ISBN 0-8176-3772-9. MR 1392949. * R. Daniel Mauldin, ed. (1981). The Scottish Book: Mathematics from the Scottish Cafe (Including selected papers presented at the Scottish Book Conference held at North Texas State University, Denton, Tex., May 1979). Boston, Mass.: Birkhauser. pp. xiii+268 pp. (2 plates). ISBN 3-7643-3045-7. MR 0666400. 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