Scottish Book

The Scottish Book (Polish: Księga Szkocka) was a thick notebook used by mathematicians of the Lwów School of Mathematics in Poland for jotting down problems meant to be solved.

[4] The café building used to house the Universal Bank [uk] at the street address of 27 Taras Shevchenko Prospekt.

[1] After World War II, an English translation annotated by Ulam was published by Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1957.

Piotr Kowzan proposed a "goose method" as a pedagogical tool for marking open problems and encouraging future research.

Inspired by the eccentric rewards in the Scottish Book, this approach aims to foster curiosity and knowledge-building across generations.

Part of the Scottish Book with notes of Stefan Banach and Stanislaw Ulam .
The building of the Scottish cafe where the book was recorded and stored
1972: Mazur (left) acknowledges Per Enflo with the promised "live goose", the prize for having solved problem 153 .
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Coat of arms of Lviv