George Pólya
George Pólya (/ˈpoʊljə/; 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. 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.
George Pólya | |
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George Pólya, before 1935 | |
| Born | György Pólya December 13, 1887 |
| Died | September 7, 1985 (aged 97) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Citizenship | Hungarian Swiss (1918–1947) American (1947–) |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Known for | Pólya–Szegő inequality How to Solve It Multivariate Pólya distribution Pólya conjecture Pólya enumeration theorem Landau–Kolmogorov inequality Pólya–Vinogradov inequality Pólya inequality Pólya–Aeppli distribution Pólya urn model Fueter–Pólya theorem Hilbert–Pólya conjecture Jordan–Pólya numbers |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | ETH Zürich Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Lipót Fejér |
| Doctoral students | Albert Edrei Hans Einstein Fritz Gassmann Albert Pfluger Walter Saxer James J. Stoker Alice Roth |
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