The Scottish Café was a café in Lwów where mathematicians of the Lwów School of Mathematics recorded problems in a notebook known as the Scottish Book.
Sources
- List of mathematics history topics (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Scottish_Cafe/ (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27867 (arxiv.org)
- https://www.kent.edu/cas/news/solving-pre-wwii-mathematics-problems-scottish-cafe (kent.edu)
- https://www.tau.ac.il/~kantor/QUIZ/98/scottish.html (tau.ac.il)
- https://old.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-scottish-book-mathematics-from-the-scottish-caf-with-selected-problems-from-the-new-scottish (old.maa.org)
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