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The Scottish Book: Mathematics from The Scottish Café, with Selected Problems from The New Scottish Book
R. Daniel Mauldin (Ed.)
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Description for The Scottish Book: Mathematics from The Scottish Café, with Selected Problems from The New Scottish Book
Hardback. Editor(s): Mauldin, R. Daniel. Num Pages: 340 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBG; PBKF; PBP; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 662.
The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of mathematical problems first published in the United States by Birkhauser in 1981. These problems serve as a record of the informal discussions held by a group of mathematicians at the Scottish Cafe in Lwow, Poland, between the two world wars. Many of them were leaders in the development of such areas as functional and real analysis, group theory, measure and set theory, probability, and topology. Finding solutions to the problems they proposed has been ongoing since World War II, with prizes offered in many cases ... Read more
The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of mathematical problems first published in the United States by Birkhauser in 1981. These problems serve as a record of the informal discussions held by a group of mathematicians at the Scottish Cafe in Lwow, Poland, between the two world wars. Many of them were leaders in the development of such areas as functional and real analysis, group theory, measure and set theory, probability, and topology. Finding solutions to the problems they proposed has been ongoing since World War II, with prizes offered in many cases ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birkhäuser
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
661g
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319228969
SKU
V9783319228969
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Scottish Book: Mathematics from The Scottish Café, with Selected Problems from The New Scottish Book
The book under review is interesting not only for historians of mathematics. It gives a vivid picture of the mathematical life in Lvov between the world wars and offers an opportunity to see the people and ideas of that time that had an enormous influence on the development of mathematics. (Roman Murawski, zbMATH 1331.01039, 2016)