George Pólya
Hungarian-American mathematician
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George Pólya 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... Wikipedia
Born: December 13, 1887, Budapest, Hungary
Died: September 7, 1985 (age 97 years), Palo Alto, CA
Education: Eötvös Loránd University (1905–1912) and ELTE Faculty of Science
Parents: Jakab Pólya and Anna Deutsch
Spouse: Stella Vera Weber (m. 1918)
Citizenship: Hungarian; Swiss (1918–1947); American (1947–)
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