The Scottish Book Mathematics from The Scottish Café, with Selected Problems from The New Scottish Book /

• Main Author: Mauldin, R. Daniel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Group theory.; Functional analysis.; History.; Topology.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Functional Analysis.; Group Theory and Generalizations.

The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of mathematical problems first published in the United States by Birkhäuser in 1981. These problems serve as a record of the informal discussions held by a group of mathematicians at the Scottish Café in Lwó...

Table of Contents:

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Limited Los Alamos Edition of 1957
• Preface to the Limited Los Alamos Edition of 1977 Monograph
• Part I: The Scottish Book Conference Lectures
• An Anecdotal History of the Scottish Book
• A Personal History of the Scottish Book
• Steinhaus and the Development of Polish Mathematics
• My Scottish Book "Problems"
• KKM-Maps
• Part II: The Scottish Book Problems
• Problems with Commentary
• Appendices to the Problems
• Part III: A Brief History of Wroclaw's New Scottish Book
• Lwów of the West
• Part IV: The New Scottish Book
• Selected Problems.