The Scottish Café revisited
Sebastian Pokutta's Blog 2018-03-12
Summary:
This is a try to bring together mathematicians and alike in a virtual spot to discuss mathematics and research. The Scottish Café (Polish: Kawiarnia Szkocka) was the café in Lwów (now Lviv) where, in the 1930s and 1940s, mathematicians from the Lwów School collaboratively discussedresearch problems, particularly in functional analysis and topology. Stanislaw Ulam recounts that the tables of the café had marble tops, so they could write in […]