Scottish Café

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The Scottish Café was a famous Lwów coffeehouse in interwar Poland where mathematicians of the Lwów School gathered to discuss problems and record them in the legendary "Scottish Book."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf coffeehouse
mathematical meeting place
associatedWith Hugo Steinhaus
Juliusz Schauder
Lwów School of Mathematics
Lwów School of Mathematics
surface form: Lwów mathematicians

Mark Kac
Stanisław Mazur
Stanislaw Ulam
surface form: Stanisław Ulam

Stefan Banach
Władysław Orlicz
cityCurrentCountry Ukraine
cityCurrentName Lviv, Ukraine
surface form: Lviv
cityHistoricalName Lwów
commemoratedBy mathematical literature about the Lwów School
plaques in Lviv
country Poland
eraEndReason World War II and changes of borders
fate ceased to exist in its original form after World War II
fieldOfActivity functional analysis
mathematics
probability theory
set theory
topology
hasLegacy Scottish Book preserved and published
mythos of café-based mathematical collaboration
hasPart notebook used as the Scottish Book
tables where mathematicians met
hasWork Scottish Book
historicalContext Second Polish Republic
historicalPeriod interwar period
inspired later mathematical problem sessions worldwide
tradition of problem books in mathematics
languageOfEnvironment German
Polish
Ukrainian
Yiddish
locatedIn Lwów
surface form: Lviv

Lviv, Ukraine
Lwów
Lwów
surface form: Lwów, Poland
notableFor being a meeting place of the Lwów School of Mathematics
origin of the Scottish Book
successorLocation a modern café in Lviv commemorating the Scottish Café
timePeriod 1930s
interwar Poland
usedFor collaborative mathematical research
mathematical discussions
posing open mathematical problems

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Scottish Book keptAt Scottish Café
Scottish Book locatedIn Scottish Café