Sprawozdanie z I kongresu matematykow krajow slowiankich//Comptes Rendus du I Congres des Mathematiciens des Pays Slaves, Warszawa, 1929, edited by F. Leja. Printed in Warsaw, 1930. Octavo, 394pp. Bound in the 1950's in a very sturdy, meant-to-be-used cloth. Very good copy, quite nice. Six copies are found in the OCLC, none of which are in the United States or the United Kingdom: Staats u. Universitatsbibliothek (Hamburg), ULB Sachsen Anhalt, Institute of Social History (the Netherlands), Nukat Union Catalog the the Polish Library, and Hebrew University. $300
This Congress was in essence a "coming out" occasion for the Warsaw School of Logic--as reported in the chapter on the "Warsaw School of Logic, 1981-1939" in Mostowski and Foundational Studies (2008) Karl Menger noted that the Polish logicians "had been somewhat isolated" (page 40) up until this time, and that the meeting did much for introducing their work to the international scene.
There are 58 papers presented in this volume (most I'd say are in French, followed by German, Polish, Russian and English), the authors being: Bydzovsky, Chwistek, Dickstein, Dusl, Fréchet, Golab, Hadamard, Hârlen, Hoborski, Hosiasson, Hostinsky, Jarnik, Kaczmarz, Karamata, Kawaguchi, Kempisty, Knaster, Kolodziejczyk, Koutsky, Kuratowski, Leja, Lubelski, Mazurkiewicz, Menger, Milicer-Gruzewska, Neyman, Nikodym, Obreschkoff, Petr, Petrovitch, Peyovitch, Popoff, Popova, Presburger, Rychlik, Saltykow, Sergescu, Sierpinski, Sieczka, Slebodzinski, Steinhaus, Szpilrajn, Tschakaloff, Vitali, Wazewski.
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