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George Pólya (/ ˈ p oʊ l j ə /; Hungarian: Pólya György, pronounced [ˈpoːjɒ ˈɟørɟ]; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University .
Problems and Theorems in Analysis (German: Aufgaben und Lehrsätze aus der Analysis) is a two-volume problem book in analysis by George Pólya and Gábor Szegő. Published in 1925, the two volumes are titled (I) Series. Integral Calculus. Theory of Functions.; and (II) Theory of Functions. Zeros. Polynomials. Determinants. Number Theory. Geometry.
How to Solve It (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya, describing methods of problem solving. [ 1 ] This book has remained in print continually since 1945.
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning is a two-volume book by the mathematician George Pólya describing various methods for being a good guesser of new mathematical results. [1] [2] In the Preface to Volume 1 of the book Pólya exhorts all interested students of mathematics thus: "Certainly, let us learn proving, but also let us learn guessing."
Eugen Alexander Pólya (1876-1944), Hungarian surgeon, elder brother of George Pólya Reichel-Polya Operation, a type of partial gastrectomy developed by Eugen Pólya and Friedrich Paul Reichel; George Pólya (1887-1985), Hungarian mathematician Pólya Prize (LMS), awarded by the London Mathematical Society
Virginia McCaskey, who inherited the Chicago Bears from her father, George Halas, but avoided the spotlight during four-plus decades as principal owner, has died. She was 102. McCaskey’s family ...
Many retirees have an idea of what age they want to start claiming Social Security. George C., now 77, started claiming his at 65. He's a retired worker who thought he'd cracked the code to a happy...
1842 in the Senate House, Cambridge: the Senior Wrangler, achiever of "academic supremacy" (here, Arthur Cayley), is admitted to his degree as the top scorer in the university's final-year examinations in mathematics. 2013 in the same room: the examiner announces the results of the same examinations.