By way of comparison, it’s worth noting that ten Lviv professors transferred to the Wrocław Polytechnic, two to the Gdańsk Polytechnic and two to the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków ...

Lem grew up in Lviv, which was the third largest city in the Second Polish Republic (right after Warsaw and Łódź). It was the Polish capital of modernity and a refuge of free thought in the times of ...