Biography george mathematical polya

George Pólya (December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György) was a Hungarian mathematician. He is most noted for his work in heuristics and mathematics education, publishing several books on the subject, the most famous of which is the celebrated How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method.

Life and works

He was born as Pólya György in Budapest, Hungary to originally Jewish parents Mrs.Anna Deutsch and Mr.Jakab Pólya who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886[1].

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University carrying on as Stanford Professor Emeritus the rest of his life and career. He worked on a great variety of mathematical topics, including series, number theory, mathematical analysis, geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and probability.[2] In his later days, he spent considerable effort on trying to characterize the methods that people use to solve problems, and to