[seqfan] Re: Scottish Book

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 07:36:22 CET 2013


Ulam sent me a copy of the manuscript of the Scottish Book
sometime in the 1960's or 1970's, and I looked through it for sequences
but did not see any.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Max Alekseyev <maxale at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Charles Greathouse
> <charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote:
> > A translation of the Scottish Book
> >
> http://kielich.amu.edu.pl/Stefan_Banach/pdf/ks-szkocka/ks-szkocka3ang.pdf
> > has been discussed recently on math-fun, see also
> > http://kielich.amu.edu.pl/Stefan_Banach/archiwalia.html
> > http://kielich.amu.edu.pl/Stefan_Banach/e-duda.html
> >
> > I wonder if there are any new sequences here, or information to add to
> > existing ones? The first dozen or so are on functional analysis
> > (unsurprising, considering its origin) and so not likely to produce
> integer
> > sequences, but I see other fields as I go deeper. 17 is combinatorial,
> for
> > example, and 19 geometrical.
>
> Preface http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Scottish_Book.html
> says that solution for the problem 17 was published in
> l. Z. Zahorski, Fund. Math. 34 183-245
>
> Regards,
> Max
>
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