All About L’viv

The Transportation and Communication Ministry means to launch speed trains from Kyiv to Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Lviv by Euro-2012. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

The Lviv School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians who worked between the World Wars in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). They often met at the famous Scottish Café to discuss mathematical problems, and published in the journal Studia Mathematica, founded in 1929. Read the rest of this entry »

Zygmunt Gorazdowski After finishing high school in Przemysl he enrolled in the faculty of law in Lviv. At the end of his second year of law studies he decided to enter the Latin Catholic Seminary in Lviv. Fr Zygmunt Gorazdowski died in Lviv on 1 January 1920. Those who knew him called him the “Father of the poor and priest of the homeless”. He was beatified on 26 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Read the rest of this entry »

В городе, где я родился и вырос, часть улиц носила названия никак с ним не связанные. Ни исторически, ни географически, ни профессионально. Что-то нужно было сменить, как не соответствующее духу эпохи. Кого-то следовало возвеличить и увековечить. Так наш дом стоял на углу улиц Фрунзе и Марата. Раньше, до революции на улице Марата жили резники. И она называлась Резницкой.

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Александра Маринина (настоящее имя - Алексеева Марина Анатольевна) родилась 16 июня 1957 г. в гор. Львове, до 1971 года жила в Ленинграде, с 1971 г. - в Москве; популярная российская писательница, автор большого количества произведений детективного жанра.

Официальный сайт http://www.marinina.ru

Mуj Lwуw - wspomnienia i aktualnoњci ze Lwowa
http://www.lwow.com.pl/ - Extensive information About L’viv in Polish.

Kateryna Lahno born on 27th of December 27, 1989 in L’viv. She is a Ukrainian chess player. She earned the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years and 4 months, breaking Judit Polgar’s record to become the youngest ever to earn this title. Read the rest of this entry »

Lviv city executive committee to choose best investor into Euro - 2012 stadium in Lviv
The stadium should be 33 hectares large and provide seats for 33,000 spectaculars and 1,200 parking lots, hotels with 200 rooms and other objects.

The competition is open for any juridical body irrespective of location, legal form and properties. The investor should provide guarantees of 100 M. Euros. The projects should be drafted by June 1, 2008. The deadline for applications is December 18, 2007 with further consideration on the next day. Interest in construction of the stadium in Lviv was stated by companies of Switzerland, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic and USA.

Source: http://www.nrcu.gov.ua