All About L’viv

MAULDIN, R. DANIEL, Scottish Book: Math at the Scottish Cafe
Birkhauser, 1981. 8vo - over 7¾” - 9¾” tall, Hardcover, Cloth, with dustjacket, Good/Good. Previous owner’s bookplate and name stamp on front endpapers, title page, and pg. 49; binding tight; dustjavket, cover, edges, and interior intact and exceptionally clean; near pristine condition.

US$ 85.00 Offered by: Black Oak Books, Berkeley - Book number: 589767

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Apart from the more official meetings of the local sections of the Mathematical Society (which took place Saturday evenings, almost every week!), there were frequent informal discussions mostly held in one of the coffee houses located near the University building - one of them a coffee house named “Roma” and the other “The Scottish Coffee House”. This explains the name of the collection. A large notebook was purchased by Banach and deposited with the headwaiter of the Scottish Coffee House, who, upon demand, would bring it out of some secure hiding place, leave it at the table, and after the guests departed, return it to its secret location. (more…)

Kohn was born in Bohemia to a desperately poor family that struggled to find the resources to send him to school. By all accounts, he was a brilliant young man who simultaneously studied Talmud and enrolled in the philosophical faculty of the famous Charles University in Prague. Early on, he was drawn to the Jewish Enlightenment, which called for Jews to integrate socially and politically with their host nations. (more…)