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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 December 1887, 1887
- Died
- 8 September 1985, 1985
- Part of
- The Martians
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Palo Alto
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Pólya
- Father
- Jakab Pólya
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis, combinatorics, mathematics, number theory, numerical analysis, probability theory, heuristic, education
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Hungary, United States
- Religion
- Catholicism
- archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives
- doctoral advisor
- Lipót Fejér
- doctoral student
- Fritz Gassmann, Alice Roth, Albert Edrei, Hans Albert Einstein, Albert Pfluger, James J. Stoker, Alfred Aeppli, Michael Israel Aissen, Florian Eggenberger, Gottfried Grimm, Jeremy Kilpatrick, Imre Lakatos
- educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University, University of Vienna, Berzsenyi Dániel Secondary School, University of Göttingen
- employer
- Stanford University, ETH Zurich, Brown University
- Erdős number
- 2
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Zurich
- name in native language
- Pólya György
- notable work
- How to Solve It, Pólya conjecture, Fueter–Pólya theorem, Pólya–Szegő inequality, Q31840454, Laguerre–Pólya class, Pólya urn model, Pólya enumeration theorem, beta negative binomial distribution
- place of burial
- Alta Mesa Memorial Park
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