The Scottish Café in Lwów (Lviv) was a meeting place where mathematicians of the Lwów School of Mathematics discussed problems and recorded them in a notebook later published as the Scottish Book.
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- List of mathematics history topics (wikipedia)
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Scottish_Book/ (corroboration)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27867 (corroboration)
- https://www.kent.edu/cas/news/solving-pre-wwii-mathematics-problems-scottish-cafe (corroboration)
- https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/society/scottish-book-lvivs-mathematical-relic (corroboration)
- http://www.math.lviv.ua/szkocka/ (corroboration)