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."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scottish Café canonical | 4 |
Statements (49)
| 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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
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