Pólya
title: "Pólya" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hungarian-language-surnames"] topic_path: "general/hungarian-language-surnames" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pólya" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Pólya (Hungarian for "swaddling clothes") is a surname. People with the surname include:
- Eugen Alexander Pólya (1876–1944), Hungarian surgeon, elder brother of George Pólya
- Reichel-Polya Operation, a type of partial gastrectomy developed by Eugen Pólya and Friedrich Paul Reichel
- George Pólya (1887–1985), Hungarian mathematician
- Pólya Prize (LMS), awarded by the London Mathematical Society
- Pólya Prize (SIAM), awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Pólya Award, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Pólya enumeration theorem
- Pólya conjecture
- Hilbert–Pólya conjecture
- Pólya–Szegő inequality
- Multivariate Pólya distribution
- The Pólya–Vinogradov inequality
- (1886–1937), Hungarian graphic artist
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