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Author:   R. Daniel Mauldin
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2015
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9783319794327

ISBN 10:   3319794329
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I The Scottish Book Conference Lectures1 An Anecdotal History of the Scottish Book, S. Ulam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A Personal History of the Scottish Book, Mark Kac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Steinhaus and the Development of Polish Mathematics, A. Zygmund . . 214 My Scottish Book ‘Problems’, Paul Erdös . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 KKM-Maps, Andrzej Granas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.1 Definition and examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.2 Ky Fan fixed point theorem and the minimax inequality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395.3 KKM-maps and variational inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415.4 KKM-maps and the theory of games. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435.5 Bibliographical and historical comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Part II The Scottish Book Problems6 Problems with Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 Appendices to the Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2837.1 Problem Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2837.2 Authors of the problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2857.3 Problems of Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287Part III A Brief History of Wrocław’s New Scottish Book8 Lwów of the West, P. Biler, P. Krupski, G. Plebanekand W. A. Woyczy´nski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291Part IV The New Scottish Book9 Selected Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

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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)

“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)

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