George Pólya (nonfiction)

George Pólya circa 1973 at the Stanford University faculty club.

George Pólya (Hungarian: Pólya György; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician.

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.

He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.

He is also noted for his work in heuristics and mathematics education.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Albert Edrei (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
• Hans Einstein (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
• Lipót Fejér (nonfiction) - Doctoral advisor
• Fritz Gassmann (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
• Imre Lakatos (nonfiction) - Influenced
• Mathematician (nonfiction)
• Number theory (nonfiction)
• Albert Pfluger (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
• James J. Stoker (nonfiction) - Doctoral student

External links:

• George Pólya @ Wikipedia