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Budapest, Hungary
Palo Alto, California, USA
Biography
George Pólya's parents were Anna Deutsch and Jakab Pólya who were both Jewish. Anna was from a family who had lived for many generations in Buda, and she had been nineteen years old in 1872 when the towns of Buda, Obuda, and Pest had administratively merged to become the city of Budapest. Perhaps we should say a little about George Pólya's names, for the situation is not quite as it appears. In fact, although Jakab Pólya had the name "Pólya" when his son György (or George as he was later known) was born, he had only called himself Pólya for the five preceding years. Before that his name had been Jakab Pollák but, in order to understand why Jakab Pollák changed his name to Pólya, we need to look at both his career and at a little Hungarian history.Jakab was trained as a lawyer, ran his own law firm which failed, and then worked for the international insurance company Assicurazioni Generali of Trieste. However what he really wanted was a university post in which he could conduct research into the subjects which really interested him
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„How To Solve It”
Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya (1887-1985) was one of those who channeled the Hungarian and, more broadly speaking, European school tradition into American education in a series of books and articles, starting with his 1945 book How to Solve It[19]. In 1944 Pólya remembered the time when, at the turn of the century in Hungary,
he was a student himself, a somewhat ambitious student, eager to understand a little mathematics and physics. He listened to lectures, read books, tried to take in the solutions and facts presented, but there was a question that disturbed him again and again: ‘Yes, the solution seems to work, it appears to be correct; but how is it possible to invent such a solution? Yes, this experiment seems to work, this appears to be a fact; but how can people discover such facts? And how could I invent or discover such things by myself?‘[20]
Pólya came from a distinguished family of academics and professionals. His father, Jakab, an eminent lawyer and economist provided the best education for his children. They included George‘s brother, Jenõ Pólya, the internationally recognized professor of surgery and honorary member of the American College of Surgeons[21]. George P&o
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