Timeline for The ten martini problem - reason for name
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 18:29 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | @Carlo-- the link I gave is to the typewritten English translation of the Scottish book. The portal has also complete reproductions of the Polish handwritten original and its typed version. | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @MargaretFriedland --- very interesting! here's a photograph of the Scottish Book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Book | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 15:29 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | Kac probably got the idea from participating in mathematicians' discussions in the famous Scottish Cafe when he was a student, and then a young researcher in Lwow before 1939. Quite often, a prize for solving a problem was a drink. See e.g. Problem 8 here: kielich.amu.edu.pl/Stefan_Banach/pdf/ks-szkocka/… | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 12:11 | vote | accept | Turbo | ||
| Aug 14, 2014 at 7:10 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 5:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 5:09 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 5:01 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Here Terry Tao says it is because Kac offered ten martinis for the solution: terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/… | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 4:50 | history | asked | Turbo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |