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George Pólya
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ungarisch-US-amerikanischer Mathematiker
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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George (György) Pólya (* 13. Dezember 1887 in Budapest, Österreich-Ungarn; † 7. September 1985 in Palo Alto) war ein Mathematiker ungarischer Herkunft.Seine Arbeitsgebiete waren insbesondere Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, Analysis, Kombinatorik und Zahlentheorie. Er besaß die Staatsangehörigkeit von Ungarn, der Schweiz (Zürich) ab 1918 und der USA ab 1947. Er war Teil einer Gruppe, die als The Martians bezeichnet wurde, eine Bezeichnung für prominente und hochbegabte Physiker und Mathematiker jüdischer Großbürger aus Ungarn, die in die USA emigrierten.
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