The Scottish Book (a copy, of course) in the Scottish Cafe (a real cafe though)
Currently I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mathematics Department here at Lafayette College. It has been very exciting to spend my third year at Lafayette. A little over a year ago, I received Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics from Kent State University.
Main interest: functional analysis and operator theory, in particular norm-attaining and numerical radius attaining operators on Banach spaces. I worked on my thesis under the supervision of Richard M. Aron, Bernardo Cascales, and Antonio J. Guirao. More details under the research tab.
Before the graduate program in Kent, I got Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Math at East-Ukrainian National Dahl University, Ukraine. But eventually felt that I was too curious about proofs and theorems, hence decided to pursue the degree in theoretical mathematics.
Now about the photo, it was taken this summer in Lviv at the renovated version of the Scottish Cafe. The Scottish Cafe, where in the beginning of the 20th century Polish mathematicians, including Stefan Banach, used to gather to discuss math problems. The book, the Scottish Book that is, which was used to keep track of the problems, was always in the cafe. Well, the book I am holding is just a copy. But it is still being kept at the cafe and, as we were assured by the management, often demanded by the mathematicians wandering into the cafe. By the way, people continue writing new problems at the end of the book.
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