Mathematician:George Pólya

George Pólya (Hungarian name: Pólya György) was a Hungarian mathematician best known nowadays for the books he wrote.

Nationality
Hungarian

History

 * Born: 13 Dec 1887, Budapest, Hungary
 * Died: 7 Sept 1985, Palo Alto, California, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * All Horses are the Same Colour
 * Hilbert-Pólya Conjecture (with David Hilbert)
 * Pólya-Vinogradov Inequality (independently of Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov)

Books and Papers

 * 1925: (with Gábor Szegő)
 * 1925: Problems and Theorems in Analysis II (with Gábor Szegő)
 * 1934: Inequalities (with G.H. Hardy and J.E.Littlewood)
 * 1945:
 * 1954: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics
 * 1954: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning