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 ...

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, ...

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 ...