Pólya (Hungarian for "swaddling clothes") is a surname. People with the surname include:
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Eugen Alexander Pólya (1876–1944), Hungarian surgeon, elder brother of George Pólya
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Reichel-Polya Operation, a type of partial gastrectomy developed by Eugen Pólya and Friedrich Paul Reichel
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George Pólya
George Pólya (; ; 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. He made fundamental contributi ...
(1887–1985), Hungarian mathematician
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Pólya Prize (LMS)
The Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. Second only to the triennial De Morgan Medal in prestige among the society's awards, it is awarded in the years that are not divisible by three – those in wh ...
, awarded by the London Mathematical Society
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Pólya Prize (SIAM), awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Pólya Award, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
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Pólya enumeration theorem
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Pólya conjecture
In number theory, the Pólya conjecture (or Pólya's conjecture) stated that "most" (i.e., 50% or more) of the natural numbers less than any given number have an ''odd'' number of prime factors. The conjecture was set forth by the Hungarian mathe ...
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Hilbert–Pólya conjecture
In mathematics, the Hilbert–Pólya conjecture states that the non-trivial Zero of a function, zeros of the Riemann zeta function correspond to eigenvalues of a self-adjoint operator. It is a possible approach to the Riemann hypothesis, by means o ...
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Pólya–Szegő inequality
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Multivariate Pólya distribution
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The Pólya–Vinogradov inequality
* (1886–1937), Hungarian graphic artist
See also
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polyA
Polyadenylation is the addition of a poly(A) tail to an RNA transcript, typically a messenger RNA (mRNA). The poly(A) tail consists of multiple adenosine monophosphates; in other words, it is a stretch of RNA that has only adenine bases. In euka ...
, characteristic terminal sequence of mRNA
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Hungarian-language surnames