Stanisław Mazur
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Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur was a Polish mathematician, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and one of the leading representatives of the Lwów School of Mathematics
Stanisław Mazur in 1966
Mazur awards a live goose to Per Enflo, who solved Mazur's 1936 problem in the Scottish book. The photograph comes from the book Pół wieku matematyki polskiej 1920-1970 ("Half a Century of Polish Mathematics 1920-1970").
Scottish Book
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The Scottish Book was a thick notebook used by mathematicians of the Lwów School of Mathematics in Poland for jotting down unsolved problems. The notebook was named after the Scottish Café, where it w
Stanisław Mazur
…Mathematics, where he participated in the mathematical activities at the Scottish Café. He was the author or co-author of 47 problems included in the Scottish Book. On 6 November 1936, he posed the "basis problem" of determining whether every Banach space has a Schauder basis, with Mazur promising a "live goose…
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