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.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent, high-quality sources including MacTutor History of Mathematics and Wikipedia articles on both the Scottish Café and the Scottish Book, all consistent in details. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.375 clusters=1 claim_tier=notable] [harvest 2026-09-15: +4 source(s) on new hosts; tier unverified->gold indep=0.97 clusters=5] [kind-backfill 2026-09-15: kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- List of mathematics history topics (wikipedia)
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Scottish_Cafe/ (corroboration)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27867 (corroboration)
- https://www.kent.edu/cas/news/solving-pre-wwii-mathematics-problems-scottish-cafe (corroboration)
- https://www.tau.ac.il/~kantor/QUIZ/98/scottish.html (corroboration)
- https://old.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-scottish-book-mathematics-from-the-scottish-caf-with-selected-problems-from-the-new-scottish (corroboration)