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جورج پولیا
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Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
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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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Wikidata facts
- 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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