Scottish Book
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The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scottish Book canonical | 4 |
| Księga Szkocka | 1 |
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collection of mathematical problems
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historical mathematical document ⓘ mathematics book ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Lwów ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountryAtTheTime | Poland ⓘ |
| associatedWithCurrentCountry | Ukraine ⓘ |
| cityOfOrigin | Lwów ⓘ |
| compiledBy |
Hugo Steinhaus
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Juliusz Schauder ⓘ Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ Stanisław Mazur ⓘ Stanislaw Ulam ⓘ
surface form:
Stanisław Ulam
Stefan Banach ⓘ Władysław Orlicz ⓘ other members of the Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ |
| compiledInDecade |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| contains |
problems with monetary prizes
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problems with prize of a live goose ⓘ unsolved mathematical problems ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginAtTheTime | Poland ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
icon of collaborative problem posing in mathematics
ⓘ
symbol of the Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ |
| currentHolder | Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
Wrocław
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surface form:
Wrocław, Poland
|
| englishEditionEditor | R. Daniel Mauldin ⓘ |
| englishEditionPublicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| englishEditionPublisher | Birkhäuser ⓘ |
| field |
complex analysis
ⓘ
differential equations ⓘ functional analysis ⓘ geometry ⓘ mathematics ⓘ measure theory ⓘ probability theory ⓘ real analysis ⓘ set theory ⓘ topology ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Scottish Book
ⓘ
surface form:
Księga Szkocka
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| hasEnglishEdition | The Scottish Book: Mathematics from the Scottish Café ⓘ |
| hasNotablePrize | live goose for solving Mazur’s Problem 153 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Polish School of Mathematics
ⓘ
surface form:
Polish school of mathematics
development of functional analysis ⓘ problem-book tradition in mathematics ⓘ |
| inspired | Scottish Book-style problem lists in other mathematical communities ⓘ |
| keptAt | Scottish Café ⓘ |
| language | Polish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Scottish Café ⓘ |
| medium | notebook ⓘ |
| notableProblem |
Banach–Tarski paradox related problems
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Mazur’s problem on bases in Banach spaces ⓘ Ulam stability ⓘ
surface form:
Ulam’s stability problem
problems on Banach spaces ⓘ problems on measure-preserving transformations ⓘ |
| numberOfProblems | over 190 ⓘ |
| originalNotebookPages | approximately 193 ⓘ |
| survivedWorldWarII | true ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Księga Szkocka