George Polya was a Hungarian-American mathematician, born on 13 December 1887 and died on 7 September 1985. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zurich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, complex analysis, numerical analysis and probability theory, and is also noted for his work in heuristics and mathematics education. He has been described as one of the Martians, an informal category of Hungarian-American scientists that also included one of his most famous students, John von Neumann.
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician
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He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Züri
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician
In Branch: Combinatorics, Lead paragraph [in-branch]
combinatorics
In Branch: Number Theory, Lead paragraph [in-branch 2]
number theory
In Branch: Complex Analysis, Lead paragraph [in-branch 3]
complex analysis
In Branch: Numerical Analysis, Lead paragraph [in-branch 4]
numerical analysis
In Branch: Probability and Statistics, Lead paragraph [in-branch 5]
probability theory
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Proofs Credited: Saint-Venant's Theorem, LeadQuote, Proofs Credited: Saint-Venant's Theorem, Lead
A rigorous proof of this inequality was not given until 1948 by Pólya.
Polya enumeration theorem (Wikipedia)
Principal Result: Polya Enumeration Theorem, Lead sentence of the article on the result
In 1937 it was independently rediscovered by George Pólya, who then greatly popularized the result by applying it to many counting problems, in particular to the enumeration of chemical compounds.
Proofs Credited: Polya Enumeration Theorem, Lead paragraph
The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield-Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both
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Principal Result: Fueter-Polya Theorem, Lead sentence of the article on the result
The Fueter-Pólya theorem, first proved by Rudolf Fueter and George Pólya, states that the only quadratic polynomial pairing functions are the Cantor polynomials.
Proofs Credited: Fueter-Polya Theorem, Lead paragraph
The Fueter-Pólya theorem, first proved by Rudolf Fueter and George Pólya, states that the only quadratic polynomial pairing functions are
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