Editing George Pólya (section)

== Life and works ==
Pólya was born in [[Budapest]], [[Austria-Hungary]], to Anna Deutsch and Jakab Pólya, [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Hungarian Jews]] who had converted to [[Christianity]] in 1886.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Polya.html |title=Polya biography |access-date=2009-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302204448/http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Polya.html |archive-date=2012-03-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Although his parents were religious and he was baptized into the Catholic Church upon birth, George eventually grew up to be an [[agnostic]].<ref>{{cite book|title=George Pólya: master of discovery 1887–1985|year=1993|publisher=Dale Seymour Publications|isbn=978-0-86651-611-2|author=Harold D. Taylor, Loretta Taylor|page=50|quote=Plancherel was a military man, a colonel in the Swiss army, and a devout Catholic; Pólya did not like military ceremonies or activities, and he was an agnostic who objected to hierarchical religions.}}</ref> He received a PhD under [[Lipót Fejér]] in 1912, at [[Eötvös Loránd University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=George Pólya |url=https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=13648 |website=Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref> He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at [[ETH Zürich]] in Switzerland and from 1940 to 1953 at [[Stanford University]]. He remained a professor emeritus at Stanford for the rest of his career, working on a range of mathematical topics, including [[series (mathematics)|series]], [[number theory]], [[mathematical analysis]], [[geometry]], [[algebra]], [[combinatorics]], and [[probability]].<ref>{{cite book|last = Roberts|first= A. Wayne|year= 1995| title = Faces of Mathematics, Third Edition|publisher = HarperCollins College Publishers| location=New York, NY USA|isbn = 0-06-501069-8|pages=479}}</ref> He was invited to speak at the [[International Congress of Mathematicians|ICM]] at Bologna in 1928,<ref>{{cite book|author=Pólya, G.|chapter=Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Gaussschen Fehlergesetzes|title=''In:'' Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna del 3 al 10 de settembre di 1928|volume=6|pages=63–64}}</ref> at Oslo in 1936 and at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1950.

On September 7, 1985, Pólya died in [[Palo Alto, California]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dembart|first=Lee|date=1985-09-08|title=George Polya, 97, Dean of Mathematicians, Dies|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-08-mn-2892-story.html|access-date=2022-01-20|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> due to complications of a stroke he suffered during that summer.