Paulia (1887— 1985) is a famous mathematician and math educator in America. Born in Budapest, Hungary. 19 12 received a doctorate from Budapest university.

Chinese name: Paulia.

George Polya

Nationality: Hungary

Place of birth: Hungary

Date of birth: 1887

Date of death: 1985

Occupation: professor, director

Graduate School: Budapest University

Representative works: how to solve problems, mathematics and conjecture.

The life of the character

19 14 to 1940 served as assistant professor, associate professor and professor of mathematics at Zurich University of Technology, Switzerland, and 1928 later served as the head of the Department of Mathematics. From 65438 to 0940, he moved to the United States and worked as a professor at Brown University and Stanford University. 1976 was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, the Brussels Institute of International Philosophy in Belgium and the American Academy of Arts. Its mathematical research involves complex variable function, probability theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, combinatorial mathematics and many other fields. The Polya counting theorem proposed by 1937 is an important tool of combinatorial mathematics.

Major achievements

1887 12 13, Boria was born in Budapest. When I was young, I studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Budapest, Vienna, G? ttingen and Paris. 19 12 received a doctorate in mathematics from Budapest university, and the thesis was about probability. 19 14, teaching at Zurich Institute of Technology. 1940 moved to the United States and first taught at Brown University. 1942 has been teaching at Stanford University ever since. In Stanford University, there is only one building named after mathematicians, that is, Paulia College (the teaching building of the Department of Numerical Analysis). In the library of the Department of Mathematics, only the portrait of Paulia is displayed.

Paulia has made great achievements in many branches of mathematics: function theory, variational theory, probability theory, number theory, combinatorial mathematics, computational mathematics and applied mathematics. He published more than 200 famous papers, and the Polya counting theorem named after him is an important tool of modern combinatorial mathematics. Boria is also an outstanding mathematics educator, with rich mathematics education thoughts and exquisite mathematics teaching art. His research on the general laws of mathematical thinking is a special contribution to the treasure house of human thoughts.

When solving mathematical problems, Boria emphasized the common thinking habits of mathematicians, such as guessing, focusing on data, analogy, generalization and specialization, which is unique. He often uses the letter "G.P" to mean "guess and prove". Paulia's important mathematical works include How to Solve Problems, Mathematical Discovery, Mathematics and Guess, etc.

publish a book

1, how to solve the problem

2. Mathematical discovery

3. Mathematics and guessing

Personality assessment

I have been engaged in mathematics teaching for a long time and have in-depth research on the general laws of mathematical thinking. Masterpieces in this field include How to Solve Problems, Discovery of Mathematics, Mathematics and Guess, etc. They have been translated into many languages and spread widely.