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On Problem 57 of the Scottish Book

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One of the problems in Scottish book was solved by a construction of M. Laczkovich. In this note we give a Baire-category proof.

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  1. R. D. Mauldin, The Scottish Book, second edition, Birhäuser, Springer International Publishing AG (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dodrecht, London, 2015).

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  1. MTA-SZTE Analysis and Stochastics Research Group, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Aradi v. tere 1, Szeged, 6720, Hungary

    V. Totik

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CMC342, Tampa, FL, 33620-5700, USA

    V. Totik

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Dedicated to the memory of Ákos Császár

Supported by NSF grant DMS 1564541.

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Totik, V. On Problem 57 of the Scottish Book. Acta Math. Hungar. 158, 302–305 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-018-00909-y

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