Pólya Prize
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The Pólya Prize is either of two prizes in the field of mathematics
named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya
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Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya
George Pólya
George Pólya was a Hungarian 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 contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory...
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- Pólya Prize (SIAM)Pólya Prize (SIAM)The Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. First given in 1969, the prize is named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya...
, a prize awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - Pólya Prize (LMS)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 which the De Morgan Medal is not awarded...
, a prize awarded by the London Mathematical Society