Scottish Book
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The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scottish Book canonical | 4 |
| Księga Szkocka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3780760 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scottish Book Context triple: [Lwów School of Mathematics, notableWork, Scottish Book]
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A.
The Bannatyne Manuscript
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
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B.
The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a long-established Scottish daily newspaper based in Edinburgh, known for its coverage of national and international news, politics, and culture.
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C.
King’s Book
King’s Book is a mid-16th-century English doctrinal manual, officially titled *The Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for Any Christian Man*, that set out Henry VIII’s authoritative statement of faith for the Church of England.
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D.
Three Estates of Scotland
The Three Estates of Scotland were the pre-Union Scottish parliament’s representative bodies of clergy, nobility, and burgh commissioners that together formed the kingdom’s central legislative assembly.
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E.
The Bodley Head
The Bodley Head is a historic British publishing house known for producing influential literary works and championing innovative and sometimes controversial authors.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scottish Book Target entity description: The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
The Bannatyne Manuscript
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
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B.
The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a long-established Scottish daily newspaper based in Edinburgh, known for its coverage of national and international news, politics, and culture.
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C.
King’s Book
King’s Book is a mid-16th-century English doctrinal manual, officially titled *The Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for Any Christian Man*, that set out Henry VIII’s authoritative statement of faith for the Church of England.
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D.
Three Estates of Scotland
The Three Estates of Scotland were the pre-Union Scottish parliament’s representative bodies of clergy, nobility, and burgh commissioners that together formed the kingdom’s central legislative assembly.
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E.
The Bodley Head
The Bodley Head is a historic British publishing house known for producing influential literary works and championing innovative and sometimes controversial authors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collection of mathematical problems
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historical mathematical document ⓘ mathematics book ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Lwów ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountryAtTheTime | Poland ⓘ |
| associatedWithCurrentCountry | Ukraine ⓘ |
| cityOfOrigin | Lwów ⓘ |
| compiledBy |
Hugo Steinhaus
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Juliusz Schauder ⓘ Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ Stanisław Mazur ⓘ Stanisław Ulam ⓘ
linked to:
Stanislaw Ulam
Stefan Banach ⓘ Władysław Orlicz ⓘ other members of the Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ |
| compiledInDecade |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| contains |
problems with monetary prizes
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problems with prize of a live goose ⓘ unsolved mathematical problems ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginAtTheTime | Poland ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
icon of collaborative problem posing in mathematics
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symbol of the Lwów School of Mathematics ⓘ |
| currentHolder | Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
Wrocław, Poland
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linked to:
Wrocław
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| englishEditionEditor | R. Daniel Mauldin ⓘ |
| englishEditionPublicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| englishEditionPublisher | Birkhäuser ⓘ |
| field |
complex analysis
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differential equations ⓘ functional analysis ⓘ geometry ⓘ mathematics ⓘ measure theory ⓘ probability theory ⓘ real analysis ⓘ set theory ⓘ topology ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Księga Szkocka
ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish Book
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| hasEnglishEdition | The Scottish Book: Mathematics from the Scottish Café ⓘ |
| hasNotablePrize | live goose for solving Mazur’s Problem 153 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Polish school of mathematics
ⓘ
linked to:
Polish School of Mathematics
development of functional analysis ⓘ problem-book tradition in mathematics ⓘ |
| inspired | Scottish Book-style problem lists in other mathematical communities ⓘ |
| keptAt | Scottish Café ⓘ |
| language | Polish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Scottish Café ⓘ |
| medium | notebook ⓘ |
| notableProblem |
Banach–Tarski paradox related problems
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Mazur’s problem on bases in Banach spaces ⓘ Ulam’s stability problem ⓘ
linked to:
Ulam stability
problems on Banach spaces ⓘ problems on measure-preserving transformations ⓘ |
| numberOfProblems | over 190 ⓘ |
| originalNotebookPages | approximately 193 ⓘ |
| survivedWorldWarII | true ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Scottish Book Description of subject: The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Scottish Book