Lwowska szkoła matematyczna

Narrative

In 1941, many of the members of the The Lwów School of Mathematics, met at the famous Scottish Café to discuss mathematical problems, and published in the journal Studia Mathematica, founded in 1929,
The Jewish members fled southeasternf Poland when it became clear that it would be invaded by Germany.
Few of the mathematicians survived World War II.
After the war a group, including some of the original members, carried on their work in western Poland's Wrocław, the successor city to prewar Lwów.
A number of the prewar mathematicians, prominent among them Stanisław Ulam, became famous for work done in the West.

References

  1. Birnbaum, Zygmunt William 'Bill' ben Yitzhak (Ignacy Isaac)