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It is a special pleasure to be introduced by my old friend Erdős. The use of the adjective “old” is slightly depressing, and I would like to forget about it, but somehow Erdős will not let me do it.
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Professor Granas brought with him to the Texas conference a copy of Summaries of the Proceedings of the meetings of the Mathematical Society in Lwów. From these documents we can ascertain that one of the lectures took place on May 25, 1938, and was on iterated square roots. It also turned out that my recollection as reported in my Geneva talk was not entirely correct, but the errors are minor.
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Kac, M. (2015). A Personal History of the Scottish Book. In: The Scottish Book. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22897-6_2
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