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The general or amateur student should also get a taste of demonstrative reasoning... he should acquire a standard with which he can compare alleged evidence of all sorts aimed at him in modern life.

George Pólya

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George Pólya (December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician and professor of mathematics at ETH Zürich and at Stanford University. His work on heuristics and pedagogy has had substantial and lasting influence on mathematical education, and has also been influential in artificial intelligence.

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Native Name: Pólya György

Alternative Names: George Polya • Georg Polya • Georg Pólya

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there is nothing to learn about reasoning and invention if the motive and purpose of the most conspicuous step remain incomprehensible.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or
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Why should the typical student be interested in those wretched triangles? ...He is to be brought to see that without the knowledge of triangles there is not trigonometry; that without trigonometry we put back the clock millennia to Standard Darkness Time and antedate the Greeks.

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