A report on Stanislaw Ulam and Kazimierz Kuratowski

The Scottish Café's building now houses the Universal Bank in Lviv, Ukraine.

Ivy Mike, the first full test of the Teller–Ulam design (a staged fusion bomb), with a yield of 10.4 megatons on 1 November 1952

The Sausage device of Mike nuclear test (yield 10.4 Mt) on Enewetak Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Ivy. The Sausage was the first true H-Bomb ever tested, meaning the first thermonuclear device built upon the Teller-Ulam principles of staged radiation implosion.

An artist's conception of the NASA reference design for the Project Orion spacecraft powered by nuclear propulsion

When the positive integers are arrayed along the Ulam spiral, prime numbers, represented by dots, tend to collect along diagonal lines.

An animation demonstrating the lucky number sieve. The numbers in red are lucky numbers

Born into a wealthy Polish Jewish family, Ulam studied mathematics at the Lwów Polytechnic Institute, where he earned his PhD in 1933 under the supervision of Kazimierz Kuratowski and Włodzimierz Stożek.

- Stanislaw Ulam

While Kuratowski associated with many of the scholars of the Lwów School of Mathematics, such as Stefan Banach and Stanislaw Ulam, and the circle of mathematicians based around the Scottish Café he kept close connections with Warsaw.

- Kazimierz Kuratowski

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Lviv

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Largest city in Western Ukraine, and the sixth-largest in Ukraine, with a population of Lviv is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

A satellite view of Lviv (Sentinel-2,
14 August 2017)

A 17th century portrait depicting Knyaz Lev of Galicia-Volhynia with the city of Lviv in the background

Lviv High Castle, fragment of engraving by A. Gogenberg, 17th century

John II Casimir, King of Poland, pledging an oath at Lviv's Latin Cathedral, by painter Jan Matejko. Collection of the Wrocław Museum.

The Galician Sejm (till 1918), since 1920 the Jan Kazimierz University

The Lwów Eaglets, teenage soldiers who fought on the Polish side during the Battle of Lwów

Ukrainian Sich Riflemen fought on the Ukrainian side in November 1918. The picture was made by one of the contemporaries of event.

Eastern Trade Fair (Targi Wschodnie), main entrance.

Sykhiv – Lviv's largest residential neighborhood, was built in the early 1980s under Soviet rule

E19101 electric bus – product of the Electron

Inside the Church of the Transfiguration

The Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre, an important cultural centre for residents and visitors

The main building of Lviv National Museum

Pikkardiyska Tertsiya – Ukrainian a cappella musical formation

The front façade of the Lviv University, the oldest university in Ukraine

The former building of the Scottish Café

A clock in Lviv on Prospekt Svobody (Freedom Ave.), showing time to start of EURO 2012. Opera and Ballet Theatre in background

A confectioner makes chocolate lions at the Festival of Chocolate

Police patrol by bicycles in the tourist area of Lviv

Lviv National Stepan Gzhytsky University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology.

Anatomy Department Building of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University - one of the oldest and prime medical institute of Ukraine.

Aleksander Fredro Monument, moved from Lviv to Wrocław, its sister city, after World War II

The Jesuit Church – An example of baroque style in Lviv

Bernardine church and monastery in the style of Italian and Dutch mannerism

The Nativity of the Holy Virgin Church was constructed in 1995–2001 in Sykhiv district

The mixture of modern and Soviet-era architecture in the northern part of the city

View on Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The most well-known were the mathematicians Stefan Banach, Juliusz Schauder and Stanisław Ulam who were founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics turning Lviv in the 1930s into the "World Centre of Functional Analysis" and whose share in Lviv academia was substantial.

Stanisław Ulam who was later a participant in the Manhattan Project and the proposer of the Teller-Ulam design of 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.

Lwów School of Mathematics

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Group of Polish mathematicians who worked in the interwar period in Lwów, Poland (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine).

The biographies and contributions of these mathematicians were documented in 1980 by their contemporary Kazimierz Kuratowski in his book A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections.

Stanisław Ulam