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===Mathematics=== [[File:Hotel-Atlas-2014.JPG|thumb|upright|The building of the former Scottish Café]] Lviv was the home of the [[Scottish Café]], where in the 1930s and the early 1940s, Polish [[mathematician]]s from the [[Lwów School of Mathematics]] met and spent their afternoons discussing mathematical problems. [[Stanislaw Ulam|Stanisław Ulam]] who was later a participant in the [[Manhattan Project]] and the proposer of the [[Teller–Ulam design|Teller-Ulam design]] of [[Nuclear weapon design|thermonuclear weapons]], [[Stefan Banach]] one of the founders of [[functional analysis]], [[Hugo Steinhaus]], [[Karol Borsuk]], [[Kazimierz Kuratowski]], [[Mark Kac]] and many other notable mathematicians would gather there.<ref name="Ulam">Stanislaw M. Ulam, ''Adventures of a Mathematician'', New York: [[Charles Scribner's Sons]], 1976. {{ISBN|0-684-15064-6}}</ref> The café building now houses the Atlas Deluxe Hotel at 27 Taras Shevchenko Prospekt (prewar Polish street name: ''ulica Akademicka'').<ref>[http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Miscellaneous/Scottish_Cafe.html "The Scottish Café in Lvov"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929145904/http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Miscellaneous/Scottish_Cafe.html |date=29 September 2007 }}, at the [[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]].</ref> Mathematician [[Zygmunt Janiszewski]] died in Lviv on 3 January 1920.
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