Pólya (Hungarian for "swaddling clothes") is a surname. People with the surname include: * Eugen Alexander Pólya (1876–1944), Hungarian surgeon, elder brother of George Pólya ** Reichel-Polya Operation, a type of partial gastrectomy developed by Eugen Pólya and Friedrich Paul Reichel *

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 **

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 **

Pólya Prize (SIAM) Pólya Prize may refer to: * George Pólya Prize, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) *Pólya Prize (LMS), awarded by the London Mathematical Society See also * George Pólya Award The George Pólya Award is pre ...

, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ** Pólya Award, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) **

Pólya enumeration theorem The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield–Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows from and ultimately generalizes Burnside's lemma on the number of orbits of a group action on a set. T ...

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 ...

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 ...

** Pólya–Szegő inequality ** Multivariate Pólya distribution ** The Pólya–Vinogradov inequality * (1886–1937), Hungarian graphic artist