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George Pólya
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Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
George Pólya was a Hungarian mathematician who lived from 1887 to 1985 and made important contributions to mathematics education and problem-solving methods. He is widely remembered for developing systematic approaches to teaching people how to solve problems, which have influenced mathematics education around the world.
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Key facts
- Born
- Pólya György , ( 1887-12-13 ) December 13, 1887, Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- September 7, 1985 (1985-09-07) (aged 97), Palo Alto, California , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Hungarian, Swiss (1918–1947), American (1947–)
- Alma mater
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- ETH Zürich , Stanford University
- Doctoral advisor
- Lipót Fejér
- Doctoral students
- Albert Edrei [ de ] , Hans Einstein , Fritz Gassmann , Albert Pfluger , Walter Saxer , James J. Stoker , Alice Roth
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- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- The Martians
- Given name
- Georg
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Palo Alto
- Sibling
- Eugen Pólya
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Göttingen
- Employer
- Brown University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Doctoral advisor
- Lipót Fejér
- Field of work
- education
- Image
- George Pólya ca 1973.jpg
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- member of
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- George Pólya
- date of birth
- 1887-01-01
- date of death
- 1985-01-01
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- Pólya György
- place of burial
- Alta Mesa Memorial Park
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Zurich
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Encyclopedic overview
George Pólya (/ˈpoʊljə/; Hungarian: Pólya György [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. 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. He has been described as one of The Martians, an informal category which included one of his most famous students at ETH Zurich, John von Neumann.
Life and works
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