George Pólya
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George Pólya (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.
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See also
- Landau–Kolmogorov inequality
- Multivariate Pólya distribution
- Pólya conjecture
- Polya distribution
- Pólya enumeration theorem
- Pólya–Vinogradov inequality
- Pólya inequality
- Pólya urn model
- Pólya's proof that there is no "horse of a different color"
- The Martians (scientists)
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