George Pólya (/ˈpoʊljə/; Hungarian: Pólya György, pronounced [ˈpoːjɒ ˈɟørɟ]; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician...
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mathematician George Pólya in 1919, and proved false in 1958 by C. Brian Haselgrove. Though mathematicians typically refer to this statement as the Pólya conjecture...
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three prizes named after George Pólya: the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, established in 2013; the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics...
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The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield–Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows from and ultimately...
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Pólya (1876-1944), Hungarian surgeon, elder brother of George Pólya Reichel-Polya Operation, a type of partial gastrectomy developed by Eugen Pólya and...
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The George Pólya Award is presented annually by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for articles of expository excellence that have been published...
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In statistics, a Pólya urn model (also known as a Pólya urn scheme or simply as Pólya's urn), named after George Pólya, is a family of urn models that...
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Sophistic argumentation styles were equated with fallacious arguments. George Polya in his two volume book titled Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning presents...
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Negative binomial distribution (redirect from Polya distribution)
down. The Pascal distribution (after Blaise Pascal) and Polya distribution (for George Pólya) are special cases of the negative binomial distribution...
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How to Solve It (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya, describing methods of problem solving. This book has remained in print continually...
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