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The random walks of George Pólya
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- Creator
- Gerald L. Alexanderson ; with essays by Ralph P. Boas, Jr. ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, [2000]
- ©2000
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781470458508, 9780883855287
- "Pólya's bibliography": pages 171-192.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue 1. Childhood 2. Pólya's Education 3. Vienna, Göttingen, and Paris 4. Zürich 5. Collaboration with Szegő 6. Oxford and Cambridge 7. The United States -- The First Visit 8. Swiss Citizenship 9. Stanford 10. 1945 11. Honors 12. The Later Years Appendix 1. Pólya's Work in Probability-by K. L. Chung Appendix 2. Pólya's Work in Analysis-by R. P. Boas Appendix 3. Comments on Number Theory-by D. H. Lehmer Appendix 4. Pólya's Geometry-by Doris Schattschneider Appendix 5. Pólya's Enumeration Theorem-by R. C. Reed Appendix 6. Pólya's Contributions in Mathematical Physics-by M. M. Schiffer Appendix 7. George Pólya and Mathematics Education-by Alan H. Schoenfeld Appendix 8. Pólya's Influence -- References to His Work Appendix 9. Prizes, Awards and Lectureships Honoring George Pólya Appendix 10. "On Picture Writing"-by George Pólya Appendix 11. "Generalization, Specialization Analogy"-by George Pólya Appendix 12. "Heuristic Reasoning in the Theory of Numbers"-by George Pólya Appendix 13. "Probabilities in Proofreading"-by George Pólya Appendix 14. Cast of Characters -- A Glossary of Names