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George Pólya

Born on December 13, 1887

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George Pólya (Hungarian: Pólya György; 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.

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