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George Pólya (December 13, 1887 - September 7, 1985, in Hungarian language ''Pólya György'') was a mathematician, who was born in Budapest, Hungary and died in Palo Alto, United States. He worked on a great variety of mathematical topics, including series (mathematics), number theory, combinatorics, and probability. In his later days, he spent considerable effort on trying to characterize the general methods that we use to solve problems, and to describe how problem-solving should be taught and learned. He wrote three books on the subject: ''How to Solve It'', ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics'', and ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Reasoning''. In ''How to Solve It'', Pólya provides general heuristics for solving problems of all kinds, not simply mathematical ones. The book includes advice for teaching students mathematics and a mini-encyclopedia of heuristic terms. It was translated into several languages and has sold over a million copies. Russian physicist Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, (Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000) praised it, saying he was very pleased with Pólya's famous book. In ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume I'', Pólya discusses inductive reasoning in mathematics, by which he means reasoning from particular cases to the general rule. (He also includes a chapter on the technique called mathematical induction, but that technique is not his main theme.) In ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume II'', he discusses more general forms of inductive logic that can be used to roughly determine to what degree a conjecture (in particular, a mathematical conjecture) is plausible. Some quotes: *How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics. (This is a mnemonic for the first fourteen digits of pi, the lengths of the words are the digits) * If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it. == See also == *Burnside's lemma *Hilbert-Pólya conjecture == External links == *[http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/misc/polya.html http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/misc/polya.html] * 1887 births 1985 deaths 20th century mathematicians Combinatorists Hungarian mathematicians
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George Pólya (December 13, 1887 - September 7, 1985, in Hungarian language ''Pólya György'') was a mathematician, who was born in Budapest, Hungary and died in Palo Alto, United States. He worked on a great variety of mathematical topics, including series (mathematics), number theory, combinatorics, and probability. In his later days, he spent considerable effort on trying to characterize the general methods that we use to solve problems, and to describe how problem-solving should be taught and learned. He wrote three books on the subject: ''How to Solve It'', ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics'', and ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Reasoning''. In ''How to Solve It'', Pólya provides general heuristics for solving problems of all kinds, not simply mathematical ones. The book includes advice for teaching students mathematics and a mini-encyclopedia of heuristic terms. It was translated into several languages and has sold over a million copies. Russian physicist Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, (Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000) praised it, saying he was very pleased with Pólya's famous book. In ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume I'', Pólya discusses inductive reasoning in mathematics, by which he means reasoning from particular cases to the general rule. (He also includes a chapter on the technique called mathematical induction, but that technique is not his main theme.) In ''Mathematics of Plausible Reasoning Volume II'', he discusses more general forms of inductive logic that can be used to roughly determine to what degree a conjecture (in particular, a mathematical conjecture) is plausible. Some quotes: *How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics. (This is a mnemonic for the first fourteen digits of pi, the lengths of the words are the digits) * If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it. == See also == *Burnside's lemma *Hilbert-Pólya conjecture == External links == *[http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/misc/polya.html http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/misc/polya.html] * 1887 births 1985 deaths 20th century mathematicians Combinatorists Hungarian mathematicians
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