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Pearls from a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics
About this Title
Roman Duda, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland. Translated by Daniel Davies
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
2014; Volume 40
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1076-6 (print); 978-1-4704-1527-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/040
MathSciNet review: MR3222779
MSC: Primary 01A72; Secondary 01A60
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Background
- The University and the Polytechnic in Lvov
- Polish mathematics at the turn of the twentieth century
- Sierpiński’s stay at the University of Lvov (1908–1914)
- The University in Warsaw and Janiszewski’s program (1915–1920)
- World mathematics (active fields in Poland) around 1920
The golden age: Individuals and community
- The mathematical community in Lvov after World War I
- Mathematical studies and students
- Journals, monographs, and congresses
- The popularization of mathematics
- Social life (the Scottish Café, the Scottish Book)
- The Polish Mathematical Society
- Collaboration with other centers
- In the eyes of others
The golden age: Achievements
- Stefan Banach’s doctoral thesis and priority claims
- Probability theory
- Measure theory
- Game theory: A revelation without follow-up
- Operator theory in the 1920s
- Methodological audacity
- Banach’s monograph: Polishing the pearls
- Operator theory in the 1930s: The dazzle of pearls
- New perspectives for which time did not allow
- On the periphery
Oblivion
- Ukrainization the Soviet way (1939–1941)
- The German occupation (1941–1944)
- The expulsion of Poles (1945–1946)
Historical significance
- Chronological overview
- Chronology of events as perceived elsewhere
- Influence on mathematics of the Lvov school
- A tentative summary
- Mathematics in Lvov after 1945
List of Lvov mathematicians
Bibliographies