WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —The field of applied mathematics enables the ability to solve real-world problems through mathematical models and computational methods. The Society for Industrial and Applied ...

Professor Emmanuel Candès from Stanford University and Professor Terence Tao from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) were the 2010 recipients of the George Pólya Prize, which was awarded at ...

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 ...

Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will share the prestigious George Pólya Prize with UC Davis professor of mathematics Craig Tracy. The two ...

Essays in Honor of George Pólya. (Stanford Studies in Mathematics and Statistics, No. 4.) Edited by Gabor Szegö, Charles Loewner, Stefan Bergman, Menahem Max Schiffer, Jerzy Neyman, David Gilbarg, ...

Gerhard Wanner of the University of Geneva is the 2015 recipient of the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition. Wanner is being honored primarily for the five books he has co-authored. They ...