The world of math may owe a debt of gratitude to soccer. An injury from that sport is what prevented George Pólya from entering the Hungarian army during World War I. Pólya was a sort of mathematical ...

It’s true that learning mathematics often involves solving problems, but it should focus on the joy of solving puzzles, rather than memorizing rules. I invite you to see yourself as a problem solver ...

Given every two years, the prize alternately awards an achievement in combinatorial theory and one in another area of interest to George Pólya, such as complex analysis or probability theory. Pólya, ...

The analysis of problem-solving procedures was carried out in two layers – general strategies, which adopted Pólya's four-stage problem-solving model, and specific strategies, which consisted of 17 ...