A poetry collection by Susan Case (see also 5 July 2011 posting) -- The Scottish Cafe (Slapering Hole Press, 2002) -- celebrates the lives and minds of a group of mathematicians in Poland during World War II. Its observations and insights add a new dimension to the important story of the Scottish Book to which it refers -- a book in which the mathematicians reorded their problems and solutions. First published in a mimeographed edition in 1957 by Stanislaw Ulam, The Scottish book: mathematics from the Scottish Café (Birkhäuser, 1981) may now be seen and searched at GoogleBooks. Case's collection includes statements of two of the Scottish Book's problems: here, below, is "problem 193" -- which I offer as a "found poem." A photo of its Scottish Book solution follows.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
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