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George Polya

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

GEORGE POLYA

  • Was a Hungarian Jewish mathematician
  • Professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940
  • Born December 13 1887 in Budapest Hungary
  • Died September 7 1985 palo alto California
  • He went to Eötvös Loránd University
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CONTRIBUTION

  • He made contributions to problem solving
  • He did things like make the four principles
  • He sold books about the four principles and sold millions
  • As a kid he was frustrated trying to regularly memorize information
  • Remembering information Is also a big obstacle for me
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OBSTACLES

  • He had trouble remembering regularly remembering stuff
  • He tutored a barons son Gregor and he also had trouble remembering
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THINGS THAT WILL HELP ME

  • The fact that he had a problem remembering and he fixed it
  • He never gave up on making the principles

UNUSUAL STORIES

  • He met a doctors daughter and married her
  • He saw a couple that walked the same as him
  • So he did tests called the random walk and said wherever you
  • Walk you'll end up at the start
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FAMOUS QUOTE

  • "A great discovery solves a great problems, but there's a grain of discovery
  • In the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it
  • Challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties,
  • And if you solve it by your own means, you may experience tension and
  • Enjoy the triumph of discovery. - George Polya
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