Pólya
# Pólya

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
* Tibor Pólya [hu] (1886-1937), Hungarian graphic artist
