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George Pólya

1887 - 1985

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George Pólya (; Hungarian: Pólya György, pronounced [ˈpoːjɒ ˈɟørɟ]; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) 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 analysis and probability theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Pólya has received more than 609,557 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). George Pólya is the 166th most popular mathematician (up from 175th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 109th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, George Pólya ranks 166 out of 1,004. Before her are Simplicius of Cilicia, Wacław Sierpiński, Alonzo Church, André Weil, James Joseph Sylvester, and Pierre Bouguer. After her are Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Camille Jordan, and Gösta Mittag-Leffler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, George Pólya ranks 49. Before her are Julian Huxley, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Hans Oster. After her are Violet Jessop, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Giovanni Gronchi, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and Raoul Walsh. Among people deceased in 1985, George Pólya ranks 28. Before her are John Franklin Enders, Paul Flory, Margaret Mahler, Emil Gilels, Macfarlane Burnet, and James Hadley Chase. After her are Robert Graves, Elsa Morante, Kyu Sakamoto, Henry Hathaway, Ian Stewart, and Rodney Robert Porter.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, George Pólya ranks 110 out of 1,077. Before her are István Szabó (1938), Pál Teleki (1879), Cornel Wilde (1912), Pál Schmitt (1942), Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045), and Döme Sztójay (1883). After her are Ján Kollár (1793), Gyula Grosics (1926), György Cziffra (1921), Orestes (420), Bayan I (600), and Saint Emeric of Hungary (1000).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, George Pólya ranks 3. Before her are John von Neumann (1903), and Paul Erdős (1913). After her are Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Raoul Bott (1923), Peter Lax (1926), Pál Turán (1910), and Klára Dán von Neumann (1911).

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