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Guide to the George Pólya Papers SC0337

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Guide to the George Pólya Papers SC0337 1 SC0337 Language of Material: Undetermined Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Title: George Pólya papers creator: Pólya, George Identifier/Call Number: SC0337 Physical Description: 40.5 Linear Feet Date (inclusive): 1884-1985 Abstract: Papers relate to Pólya's research and teaching in mathematics and include professional and personal correspondence with mathematicians worldwide, 1910-1984; course materials including lecture notes; mathematical research notebooks dating from 1917 to 1960; manuscripts including those from his published works Complex Variables, How to Solve It, Mathematical Discovery, and Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning; ephemera; reprints; and photographs. Immediate Source of Acquisition note The materials in this collection were given to Stanford University by Mrs. George Pólya in 1986, 1987, and 1988, and by Gerald L. Alexanderson, 1989-2009. Information about Access Materials in Subseries 8 of accession 1989-132 are restricted until January 1, 2039. Otherwise the collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use. Ownership & Copyright All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes. Cite As [Identification of item], George Pólya Papers (SC0337). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Biographical/Historical Sketch Hungarian mathematician George Pólya was educated at the University of Budapest and the University of Paris, and taught at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich from 1914 to 1940. His students included future Stanford physics professors Felix Bloch and Hans Staub. In 1942 he joined Stanford's Department of Mathematics, whose chairman, Gábor Szegö, had been a fellow student in Hungary. He continued to teach until his 90th birthday in 1977. Following early research on probability, Pólya turned to the difficult area of the theory of functions of a complex variable. He was also interested in geometry and geometrical methods. His study of symmetry in the plane was studied and applied by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher. Pólya's later work on the principles of heuristics and problem solving is credited with providing a foundation for the application of computers to artificial intelligence. In addition to his own research and teaching, Pólya was concerned with methods of teaching mathematics and mathematics teachers. He is considered the father of the current trend toward emphasizing problem solving in mathematical teaching. His very successful book How to Solve It has been translated into fifteen languages and is still used widely. He died in 1985. Description of the Collection The papers in this collection relate to Pólya's research and teaching in mathematics and include professional and personal correspondence with mathematicians worldwide, 1910-1984; course materials including lecture notes; mathematical research notebooks dating from 1917 to 1960; manuscripts including those from his published works Complex Variables, How to Solve It, Mathematical Discovery, and Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning; ephemera; reprints; and photographs. Subjects and Indexing Terms Mathematics -- Study and teaching. Mathematics. Riesz, Frigyes Pólya, George Schlesinger, Ludwig, b. 1864

Guide to the George Pólya Papers SC0337 2 SC0337 Pólya, George Runge, Carl Schur, Issai Schoenberg, I.J. Montel, Paul, b.1876. Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gustaf Norlund, Niels Erik Nevanlinna, Rolf Pfluger, Albert Ostrowski, A.M. (Alexander M.) Pringsheim, Alfred Prather, Carl. Tietze, Heinrich Toeplitz, Otto von Pidoll, Max. Beke, Manó Weyl, Hermann Wigner, Eugene Paul Wirtinger, Wilhelm Young, Grace Chisolm. Siegel, Carl Ludwig Sierpiński, Wacław Sommerfeld, Arnold Stanford University. Department of Mathematics. Faculty Stern, Alfred. Stáckel, Paul Szász, Otto Hardy, G.H. (Godfrey Harold) Harary, Frank. Hadwiger, Hugo. Hadamard, Jacques Haar, Alfréd Frege, Gottlob Fekete, Mihaly Fejér, Lipót. Edrei, Albert. De Finetti, Bruno. Carathéodory, Constantin Brentano, Franz Clemens Borel, Émile Bohr, Harold Alexanderson, Gerald L. Bieberbach, Ludwig Szegő, Gábor Bernays, Paul Lehmer, D.H. (Derrick Henry) Littlewood, John E. (John Edensor) Kollros, Louis

Guide to the George Pólya Papers SC0337 3 SC0337 Landau, Edmund Kiefer, Albert Kamke, E. (Erich) Knuth, Donald Ervin Keszthelyi, Tibor, Dr. Hurwitz, Adolf Jentzsch, Robert Hille, Einar Hirsch, Arthur Higgins, Thomas James. Hilbert, David Hecke, Erich Hensel, Kurt

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box 1, folder 1 Draft: Chapter One: Polanyi Biography Summer 1979 box 1, folder 2 Manuscript: Problems and Solutions box 1, folder 3 Course Outlines: Math 110, Math 129: How to Solve the Problem box 1, folder 4-5 Draft: How To Solve It box 1, folder 6 Early Manuscript of Mathematical Discovery. The Aims; Part I: Patterns; Chapter 1: Patterns of 2 Loci; Chapter 2: The Cartesian Pattern; Chapter 3: Recursion; Chapter 6: Widening the Scope; Solutions box 1, folder 7 Pages 2-4, 7, 11 of Typed Manuscript, Essay. box 1, folder 8 Part 2 of Manuscript. Patterns of Plausible Inference; Chapter 12: Some Conspicuous Patterns. box 1, folder 9 Manuscript. Preface, Hints to the Reader, Bibliography, Contents, Outline of Chapters. box 1, folder 10 Manuscript. Chapter 1. Induction and Analogy. box 1, folder 11 Manuscript. Chapter 2: Generalization, Specialization, Analogy. box 1, folder 12 Manuscript. Chapter 3. Induction in Solid Geometry. box 1, folder 13 Manuscript. Chapter 4. Induction in Theory of Numbers. box 1, folder 14 Manuscript. Chapter 5. Misc. Examples of Induction. box 1, folder 15 Manuscript. Chapter 6. A More General Statement. box 1, folder 16 Manuscript. Chapter 7. Mathematical Induction. box 1, folder 17 Manuscript. Chapter 8. Minima and Maxima. box 1, folder 18 Manuscript. Chapter 9. Physical Mathematics. box 1, folder 19 Manuscript. Chapter 10. The Isoperimetric Problem. box 1, folder 20 Manuscript. Chapter 11. Kinds of Plausible Reasons. box 1, folder 21 Manuscript. Chapter 12. Further Patterns and First Links. box 1, folder 22 Manuscript. Chapter 14. Chance, the Ever-present Rival Conjecture. box 1, folder 23 Manuscript. Chapter 15. The Calculus of Probability and the Logic of Plausible Reasoning. box 1, folder 24 Manuscript. Chapter 16. Plausible Reasoning in Invention and Instruction. box 1, folder 25 Mathematical Discovery Manuscript; Supplement to Bibliography; Miscellaneous Sections (Typed); Contents: Chapters 7-15; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; 3 Pages of Chapter 10. Chapter 11; Chapter 12 (4th Copy). box 1, folder 26 Mathematical Discovery Manuscript. Chapter 13; Pamphlet "On Learning, Teaching, and Learning Teaching"; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 1. Mathematical Language; Chapter 2. Beginnings of Integral Calculus. box 1, folder 27 Third Essay: Some Notions of Logic; I: The Notions and the Notations; III: Logical Links between the Proposed Problem and Its Auxiliary Problems. box 1, folder 28 Mathematical Discovery in the Classroom.

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box 1, folder 29 Course Descriptions for Math 110, Physical Sciences 115; Course Notes for Math 129; Part 1: Some Problems on Maxima and Minia in Elementary Geometry. box 1, folder 30 Handwritten Notes: A Simple Method of Approximation Applicable to Some Problems. box 1, folder 31 Crystallography. box 1, folder 32 Equations (1 page) box 1, folder 33 Pages 116-193 of Typed Manuscript. box 1, folder 34 Designons par le Perimetre et par v le Rayon Conforme Exterieur d'Une Courbe. La Premiere des Deux Inequalites (2 pages) box 1, folder 34 An Isoperimetric Inequality for Convex Curves (3 pages). Analyse Mathematique (6 pages. box 1, folder 35 Term Paper Assignments. box 1, folder 36 Aufgaben Und Lehrsatze Aus der Analysis. 3 Excerpts. Pages 123-131, 156-159, 378-379. Techniques for Planning the Small Experimental Project. box 1, folder 37 A Generalization of the Theorem on the Capacity of a Condenser. box 1, folder 38 Exam Book. Equations, Theorems, Proofs (30 pages). Approximations to the Area of the Ellipsoid (30 pages). box 1, folder 39 Areas of Ellipsoid (11 pages). box 1, folder 40 Memoires Presentes par Divers Savants a L'Academie des Sciences (1 page). Page 29-C of Tables. 4 Figures. box 1, folder 41 Equations/Tables (8 pages) box 1, folder 42 Tables (30 pages) box 1, folder 43 Equations (8 pages); Torsional Rigidity Increases by Symmetrization (1 page); Equations (3 pages); De Saint-Venant (2 pages). box 1, folder 44 Problems (29 pages) box 1, folder 45 Manuscript of Solutions to Vol. I of Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. Chapter 1 Solutions. box 1, folder 46 Chapter 2 Solutions box 1, folder 47 Chapter 3 Solutions box 1, folder 48 Chapter 4 Solutions box 1, folder 49 Chapter 5 Solutions box 1, folder 50 Chapter 6 Solutions box 1, folder 51 Chapter 7 Solutions box 1, folder 52 Chapter 8 Solutions box 1, folder 53 Chapter 9 Solutions box 1, folder 54 Chapter 10 Solutions box 1, folder 55 Chapter 11 Solutions box 1, folder 56 Chapter 12 Solutions box 1, folder 57 Chapter 13 Solutions box 1, folder 58 Chapter 14 Solutions box 1, folder 59 Chapter 15 Solutions box 1, folder 60 Chapter 16 Solutions box 2, folder 1 Problem Solving Seminar: 1963; term papers, mid-terms box 2, folder 2 Math 129: How to Solve the Problem, course outlines, term papers, mid-term examinations, final examinations box 2, folder 3 Manuscript: Circle, Spheres, Symmetricals and Some Classical Physical Problems box 2, folder 4 Manuscript: Preface to Mathematical Discovery box 2, folder 5 Reprint: On Functions of Sequences of Independent Chance Vectors with Applications to the Problems of the "Random Walk" in k Dimensions, by Blackwell, D. and Girshick, M.A.; miscellaneous notes box 2, folder 6 Mathematical notes: On the Zeros of Successive Derivatives box 2, folder 7 Draft: Complex Variables, by Pólya, George and Latta, G.E. box 2, folder 8 Project with Peter? Desordre box 2, folder 9 Draft: Complex Variables, By Pólya, George and Latta, G.E. box 2, folder 10 Remarks on Certain Aspects of Some Processes, Resembling to and Differing from the Poisson-Process, by Binet, F.E. box 2, folder 11 Draft: Complex Variables, by Pólya, George and Latta, G.E. box 2, folder 12 Final Exam for Math 187-b

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box 2, folder 13 Class Roll Books; Class Lists; NSF Summer Institute for High School Teachers of Mathematics 1972; Group Photo 1969 box 2, folder 14 NSF Summer Institute for High School Teachers of Mathematics 1966, 1967. Class Lists and Addresses box 2, folder 15 Math 111-S Final Summer 1965; Math 187-C Final July 29, 1965; Shell Fellows 1967 List; Math 111-S Final - Parts 1,2, Summer 1967; The Mathematics Curriculum box 2, folder 16 Seminar on Solving Math Problems 1966: Notes Jan-May 1966; Dept. of Mathematics Graduate Students Office Directory Winter 1966; Memo from Webb to Freshman Seminar Instructors box 2, folder 17 Competitive Examination in Math: Solutions and Comments 1951-1956, 1958, 1964-1965; Meeting of Math Association of America, Aug. 20, 1956; Meeting of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Aug. 21 1956: Minutes/Speeches box 2, folder 18 Letters to Winners and Alternates of Stanford-Sylvania Competitive Exam in Math; Announcement on Competitive Exam March 1963, Instructions box 2, folder 19 1954, 1956-1958, 1961, 1963 Exams box 2, folder 19 Los Angeles Mathematics Newsletter April 1956 box 2, folder 19 Math Contest Sponsored by Metropolitan New York Section of the Math Association of America 1950-1952 box 2, folder 19 Committee on Contests and Awards Releases 1951 box 2, folder 19 Correspondence Pólya-Boyer 1951 box 2, folder 19 The National Status of Math Contests in Secondary Schools box 2, folder 19 National Council of Teachers of Math box 2, folder 19 Henry L. Alder Letter (Co-Chairman of Committee on Contests) box 2, folder 19 Report on the Math Contests held in Northern California box 2, folder 19 Information on the Contest box 2, folder 19 Letters from Henry L. Alder box 2, folder 19 Registration for 1956 Annual Math Contest box 2, folder 19 Rules of the 1956 Annual Contest box 2, folder 19 Awards box 2, folder 19 Henry L. Alder Letter to Chairmen of Dept. of Math box 2, folder 19 Letter from Pólya to Prof. W. H. Fagerstrom, Jan. 23, 1952 box 2, folder 19 Letter from Pólya to Prof.John C. Schoonmaker, Nov. 23, 1948 box 2, folder 19 Letter from John C. Schoonmaker to Pólya, Oct. 29, 1948 box 2, folder 19 Pólya to John C. Schoonmaker, Nov. 8, 1948 box 2, folder 19 John C. Schoonmaker to Pólya, March 25, 1949 box 2, folder 19 Reply by Pólya's Secretary box 2, folder 19 John C. Schoonmaker to Pólya, Nov. 12, 1948 box 2, folder 19 Pi Mu Epsilon Contest and Solutions, March 13, 1948 box 2, folder 19 Emory P. Starke to Pólya, May 29, 1953 box 2, folder 19 Emory P. Starke to Gabor Szego, April 23, 1953 box 2, folder 19 Math Prize Test, New Brunswick, NJ, April 25, 1953. State Math Day Program box 2, folder 19 Emory P. Starke to Gabor Szego, June 30, 1952 box 2, folder 19 Gabor Szego to Emory P. Starke, July 7, 1952 box 2, folder 20 Students' Assignments box 2, folder 20 Math 188-A Final, Summer 1966 box 2, folder 20 Shell Merit Fellows List, 1965 box 2, folder 20 NSF Summer Institute for High School Teachers of Math: 1965 List box 2, folder 20 Academic Year Institute for High School Teachers of Chemistry and Math 1960-61 box 2, folder 20 Instructor's End Quarter Grade Report for Math 111-S, Summer 1966 box 2, folder 20 Shell Merit Fellows Summer 1966 Directory box 2, folder 20 Final for Math 111-S, Aug. 11, 1966 box 2, folder 20 Mid-term and End-Quarter Report for Math 188-A, April, 1965 box 2, folder 20 Pólya's Notes/Grades for Math 187-C (NSF) and Math 111-S (Shell), Summer 1965 box 2, folder 20 Final for Math 187-C, July 29, 1965 box 2, folder 21 The Mathematical Log, September 1958 box 2, folder 21 High School Math Contest Student Answerbook box 2, folder 21 Letters to Pólya and Szego, April 25, 1966 box 2, folder 21 Letter to Pólya from Murray S. Klamkin, April 22, 1966

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box 2, folder 21 Letter to M. Gail Adams from F.R. Watson, Dec. 21, 1965 box 2, folder 21 Letter from Adams to Watson, Dec. 9, 1965 box 2, folder 21 Letter from Watson to Adams, Nov. 23, 1965 box 2, folder 21 Letter from Virginia S. Boles to Watson, March 30, 1961 box 2, folder 21 Letter from Watson to Boles, Aug. 24, 1960 box 2, folder 21 Letter from Woolum to Boles, Oct. 19, 1960 box 2, folder 21 Letter from Boles to Woolum, Oct. 6, 1960 box 2, folder 21 Watson to Math. Department, April 9, 1960 box 2, folder 21 Boles to Watson, July 29, 1960 box 2, folder 21 Boles to Watson, Nov. 9, 1960 box 2, folder 22 Problems and Solutions for 1960 Stanford-Sylvania Competitive Exam in Math by Pólya box 2, folder 23 Stanford Competitive Exam in Math, 1946-1964; Article on Exam, 1946 box 2, folder 24 Exams, 1946-1964 box 2, folder 24 Mathematikai Lapoh. Budapest, 1956 box 2, folder 24 Letter to Pólya from James H. McKay, Feb. 14, 1966 box 2, folder 24 Pamphlet and Typed Speeches on the Stanford University Math Examination, 1946 (2 copies) box 2, folder 24 Pamphlet "A Look at Mathematical Competitions", March 1959 box 2, folder 24 Exams, 1947-1948, 1950-1953 box 2, folder 24 Letter from Edwin Eagle to Pólya, April 5, 1954 box 2, folder 24 Letter from Eagle to Szego, March 20, 1954 box 2, folder 24 Letter from Szego to Eagle, April 9, 1954 box 2, folder 24 1954 Exam Solutions, Written and Typed box 2, folder 24 Letter from Boles to Eagle, April 14, 1954 box 2, folder 24 Letter from Boles to J.D. Wilson, July 5, 1956 box 2, folder 24 1956 Exam Solution, Hand-written box 2, folder 24 1956 Results box 2, folder 24 1957 Exam and Solutions, Remarks, Results (2 Copies) box 2, folder 24 9-Math, 10-Math, 11-Math by Pólya box 2, folder 24 1956 Exam and Solutions box 2, folder 24 1949 Exam - Problems and Results box 2, folder 25 "On the Mathematics Curriculum of the High School" box 2, folder 25 "Analyse Mathematique", Institut de France, 3 pgs. box 2, folder 25 The California Mathematics Council Bulletin, Fall, 1961, Oct. 1960 box 2, folder 25 "Ten Commandments for Teachers" box 2, folder 25 "On the Ratio of Consecutive Eigenvalues" box 2, folder 25 The Mathematical Log, Jan. 1960 box 2, folder 26 Nieuw Archief Voor Wiskunde box 2, folder 26 "Bounds for Eigenvalues of Pólya's 'Plane-Covering Domains' by Filling a Top of a Cylinder" by Hersch box 2, folder 26 "Pólya's Contributions to Chemical Enumerations" by Harary, Palmer and Robinson box 2, folder 26 "An Extension of Pólya's Theorem on Power Series With Integer Coefficients" by Robinson box 2, folder 26 "Hadamard Products of Schlicht Functions and the Pólya-Schoenberg Conjecture" by Ruscheweyh and Sheil-Small box 2, folder 26 "Pólya's Enumeration Formula by Example" by Tucker box 2, folder 27 Letter from Andrew F. Acker to Pólya, Feb. 21, 1977, and Enclosures box 2, folder 28 Letter from Sami Beraha to Pólya, Aug. 18, 1961, and Enclosures box 2, folder 28 Letters from Albert Edrei to Pólya, March 29, 1978, April 16, 1978, April 26, 1978, and Enclosures box 2, folder 28 Letter from Doris Schattschneider to Pólya, Sept. 13, 1977 Plus Photograph of Escher's Writing box 2, folder 28 Letter from W. Wm. Funkenbusch to Pólya, May 29, 1979 and Paper box 2, folder 29 Letter from Frank Harary to Pólya, March 16, 1978 with "From Euler's Partitions to Cayley's Rooted Trees" by Harary; Letter from Barnabas B. Hughes to Pólya, July 21, 1977 with "A Study in Medieval Problem Solving" (2 Copies)

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box 2, folder 30 Letter from Donald E. Knuth to Pólya, Aug. 16, 1976; Various Calculations; Letter from Jean (?) to Pólya, Aug. 10, 1976 box 2, folder 31 Letter from Thomas James Higgins to Pólya, Nov. 14, 1948 box 2, folder 31 Calculations box 2, folder 31 "Experimental Determination of the Capacitance of Heavy-Current Busses Comprised of Solid or Tubular Rectangular Conductors" by Teasdale and Higgins box 2, folder 31 Letter from Higgins to Pólya, Aug. 20, 1947 box 2, folder 31 Letter from Higgins to Pólya, May 21, 1947 and Enclosure. box 2, folder 31 Pólya's Reply, June 24, 1947 box 2, folder 31 Postcard from Higgins to Pólya, June 30, 1947 box 2, folder 31 Letter from Higgins to Pólya, June 28, 1947 box 2, folder 32 Letters from D.H. Lehmer to Pólya, April 27, 1943, May 10, 1943 and Enclosures on "Inequalities for the Area of the Ellipsoid" box 2, folder 32 Postcard DHL to Pólya, February 1943 box 2, folder 32 Letter DHL to Pólya, Feb. 1, 1943 box 2, folder 32 Letter DHL to Pólya, Fe. 9, 1943 box 2, folder 32 Letter from Lehmer to Pólya, April 20, 1943 box 2, folder 32 Letter from Lehmer to Pólya, May 26, 1943 and Enclosures box 2, folder 32 Letter from Lehmer to Pólya, Dec. 23, 1943 box 2, folder 32 Letter from Lehmer to Pólya, July 11, 1943 and Enclosures box 2, folder 32 Letter from Lehmer to Pólya, July 18, 1943 and Enclosure box 2, folder 32 Letter from Lehmer to Pólya, July 20, 1943 box 2, folder 33 "A Simpler Theory of the Mathematical Infinite" by Arthur Marystone with Letter to Pólya box 2, folder 34 Letter from Donald A. McQuarrie to Pólya, March 31, 1965 box 2, folder 34 Letters from Carl Prather to Pólya, June 2, 1978, March 28, 1978, March 3, 1978 box 2, folder 34 "A Note on an Extension of the Asymptotic Formula for the Bell Numbers" by Prather box 2, folder 34 Draft of Pólya Letter to Prather, July 4, 1978 box 2, folder 35 Letter from Sister Madeleine Rose to Pólya, Undated and Enclosed Preliminary Draft of Dissertation Proposal box 2, folder 35 Information and Instructions on Experiment box 2, folder 35 "The Use of Heuristic Methods for Problem Solving in Algebra" (Revised Proposal by Rose) box 2, folder 35 3 Problems and Solutions box 2, folder 36 Letters from I.J. Schoenberg to Pólya - undated (incomplete), May 30, 1970 and Enclosure box 2, folder 37 Schoenberg Flow Chart on Problem Solving Model, Math 191-A Discussion; Letter from Schoenberg to Pólya, Oct. 25, 1977; "Can Heuristics be Taught?" by Schoenberg; Excerpt from Boole: Collected Works, Vol. 2 box 2, folder 38 Letter from Jack Williamson to Pólya, March 15, 1977 and Enclosures; Letter from John J. Wavrik to Pólya, Jan. 27, 1978 and Enclosures box 2, folder 39 Letter from A.W. Heuberg to Pólya, Nov. 28, 1962; Letter from Alexander Wittenberg to Moise, Nov. 27, 1962; Letter from Philip H. Abelson to Wittenberg, Nov. 21, 1962; "Qui Aurait Pu Penser A Cela?" by Wittenberg box 2, folder 39 "Der Mathematische und NaturWissenschaftliche Unterricht" box 2, folder 40 Identification and Development of the Mathematically Talented -- The Hungarian Experience, by Agnes Arrai Wieschenberg, PhD. Dissertation submitted to the School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1984 Additional Papers Accession ARCH-1989-132

Biographical Subseries 1

box 1, folder 1 George Pólya - Biographical 1979-1985 box 1, folder 2 Biographical Notes 1975-1979 box 1, folder 3 Biographical - on Zurich and ETH 1914, 1977-1978 box 1, folder 4 Pólya Gyorgy, Stanford Egyetem box 1, folder 5 Pólya Bibliography circa 1976

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box 1, folder 6 Grade Books from Grammar Schools 1893-1896 box 1, folder 7 Report Books After Grammar School 1905-1912 box 1, folder 8 Miscellaneous Correspondence about Teaching Posts and Lectures 1920-1940 box 1, folder 9 Pólya’s Ph.D. Students and Collaborators box 1, folder 10 Dissertations by Pólya Students 1928-1962 box 1, folder 11 Pólya Mentioned (Egocentrics) 1974-1982 Scope and Contents note Pólya labled this folder "Egocentrics."

box 1, folder 12 Recommendations 1972-1975 box 1, folder 13 Two-Year College Mathematical Journal 1978-1980 box 1, folder 14 Stanford Faculty Reports 1965-1971 box 1, folder 15 John Pólya 1952-1956 Scope and Contents note Various articles by and about Dr. John Pólya (brother?)

box 1, folder 16 J.B. Pólya on Fluoridation 1966 box 1, folder 17 Family 1884

Correspondence Subseries 2

box 2, folder 1 Varia 1934-1940 box 2, folder 2 Communications 1930-1954 box 2, folder 3 Correspondence 1979-1985 box 2, folder 4 Miscelaneous Correspondence 1981-1985 box 2, folder 5 Personal Correspondence 1961-1966 box 2, folder 6 Correspondence 1971-1983 box 2, folder 7 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1961-1979 box 2, folder 8 Alexander Israel Wittenberg 1963-1965 box 2, folder 9 Alfred Renyi, Kato (Catherine) Renyi, Paul Erdos 1957 box 2, folder 10 Correspondence 1919-1972 box 2, folder 11 Pólya Prize 1971 box 2, folder 12 Permission Requests 1967-1971 box 2, folder 13 Consulting Agreements and Requests 1965-1969 box 2, folder 14 Stanford Library Archives 1973 box 2, folder 15 Stella Pólya 1987-1988 box 2, folder 16 Reviews and Reports of Papers 1967

Class Materials Subseries 3

box 2, folder 17 Theory of Numbers, Problem Solving seminar (NSF) 1962-1967 box 2, folder 18 Miscellaneous notes - Psyc. 262 1951-1953 box 2, Probability, Statistics - Math. 123, 125 1947-1953 folder 19-20 box 2, Calculus of Probability - Math. 123 1946-1948 folder 21-22 box 2, folder 23 Probability and Statistics - Math. 123, 125 1943-1951 box 3, folder 1 Calculus of Variations - Seminar 1952-1953 box 3, folder 2 Group Theory with Applications 1938-1946 box 3, folder 3 Potential Theory 1939 box 3, folder 4-6 Differential Geometry 1941-1959 box 3, folder 7 Introduction to Elementry and Analytic Number Theory 1935 box 3, folder 8 Introduction to Elementry and Analytic Number Theory 1941-1950 box 3, folder 9 Minimum Principle Approximations 1954 box 3, folder 10 Minimum Principle Approximations 1956-1957 box 3, folder 11 Algebra and Number Theory 1928-1929

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box 3, folder 12 Singularities of Power Series 1933 box 3, folder 13 Vectors 1935-1948 box 3, folder 14 Integral Equations 1944 box 3, folder 15 Smith College, Mathematics 35B, 36B 1942 box 3, folder 16 Introduction to Combinatorics - CS150 1977-1978 box 3, folder 17 Mathematics 5 (Berkeley) 1957-1958 box 4, folder 1-4 Aspects of Calculus 1955 box 4, folder 5 Mathematics 111s 1965 box 4, folder 6 Combinatorial Theory 1966 box 4, folder 7-8 Introduction to Combinatorics - CS150 1978 box 4, folder 9 Pólya Miscellaneous Classes 1958-196? box 4, folder 10 E.T. Jaynes 1957 box 4, folder 11 Elementary Mathematics From Higher Point of View - Math 129 box 4, folder 12 How To Solve The Problem - Math 129 1931 box 4, folder 13 Lattice Points - Math Seminar undated

Manuscripts Subseries 4

box 4, Essays On Mathematical Method, Discovery, and Teaching undated folder 14-17 box 5, folder 1-2 Essays On Mathematical Method, Discovery, and Teaching box 5, folder 3 Drafts and notes for Essays On Mathematical Method, Discovery, and Teaching ~1950 box 5, folder 4 Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning - Appendix 1955-1965 box 5, folder 5 Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning - Illustrations undated box 5, folder 6-12 Mathematical Discovery undated box 6, folder 1-2 Mathematical Discovery 1962 box 6, folder 3 Corrections for Mathematical Discovery 1981 box 6, folder 4-5 Complex Variables 1971-1972 box 6, folder 6 Mathematical Methods in Science undated box 6, folder 7-8 Notebook 1, Aufgaben und lehrsatze 1955 box 6, folder 9-10 Notebook 2, Aufgaben und lehrsatze undated box 6, folder 11 Aufgaben und Lehrsatze - Addenda undated box 6, folder 12 Aufgaben und Lehrsatze 1972 box 6, folder 13 IX: Psychologie undated box 6, folder 14 III: Auffassung, Einfall, Ansatz undated box 6, folder 15 V: typische Anschlusse von Hilfsaufgaben undated box 6, folder 16 VI: Schetzung der Aussichten undated box 7, folder 1-2 VII: Die Phasen der Untersuchung undated box 7, folder 3 VII: Die Phasen der Untersuchung 1939-1940 box 7, folder 4 Notes for a book undated box 7, folder 5 Mathematical Discovery in the Classroom box 7, folder 6 Notes 1949-1954 box 7, folder 7 Notes for a Book ~1941 box 7, folder 8 Rules and Moves box 7, folder 9 Essential Texts in German How To Solve It undated box 7, folder 10 Figures and Drawing box 7, folder 11 Bound Notebook 1957-1977 box 7, folder 12 Notes from previous bound notebook box 7, folder 13 Problems box 7, folder 14 Talks 1940-1946 box 8, folder 1 Teaching Mathematics 1950 box 8, folder 2 Notes for Short Papers - Problems 1971-1979 box 8, folder 3 How To Solve It - Symposium 1947-1948 box 8, folder 4 Miscellaneous Manuscripts 1962 box 8, folder 5 Rules of Thumb 1977 box 8, folder 6 Seattle for Oldsters undated box 8, folder 7 San Diego, June, 1970 1970

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box 8, folder 8 Galileo 1976 box 8, folder 9 Slides undated box 8, folder 10 Talks: Seattle, San Diego 1977-1978 box 8, folder 11 Daylight Arc 1976 box 8, folder 12 Symmetry of Ornaments undated box 8, folder 13 Slides for a talk undated box 8, folder 14 Films 1970-1976 box 8, folder 15 Lectures on Travels 1958-1959 box 8, folder 16 Notebook undated box 8, folder 17 Notebook box 8, folder 18 Notebook 1942 box 8, folder 19 Mathematical Education 1968 box 8, folder 20 Unfinished and Planned Writing undated box 8, folder 21 Fragments of Writings undated box 8, folder 22 Henryk Lauer undated box 8, folder 23 Misc. Pólya Manuscripts undated box 8, folder 24 Lecture Notes 1966-1968 box 9, folder 1 Various Lectures 1967-1968 box 9, folder 2 Summer Institute Lecture 1972-1976 box 9, folder 3 Numerical Integration 1943-1946 box 9, folder 4 Lectures - Plausible Reasoning 1954 box 9, folder 5 Pólya Counting Method 1978 box 9, folder 6 George Pólya Article for Szego's Collected Papers 1981 box 9, folder 7 Calculus of Probabilities (French) undated box 9, folder 8 Papers by Pólya 1952 box 9, folder 9 Project Hilgard ~1953

Research Materials Subseries 5

box 9, folder 10 Experimental Tables Undated box 9, folder 11 "The Heuristic of George Pólya and its Relation to Artificial Intelligence", by Allen Newell, Feb. 1981, draft, 50pp, plus Pólya’s letters of thanks to Newell 1981 box 9, Miscellaneous Research Notes 1951-1953 folder 12-13 box 9, folder 14 Solow, Daniel 1980-1981 box 9, Miscellaneous Problems 1966-1969 folder 15-16 box 10, folder 1 Miscellaneous Problems Collected from Various Sources 1954-1962 box 10, folder 2 Primes box 10, folder 3-4 Notebook for Mathematical Discovery 1953-1977 box 10, folder 5 Notebook: Heuristic Logic box 10, folder 6 Odlyzko - Zeros of Zeta Function 1982 box 10, folder 7 Notes 1983 box 10, folder 8 Michael Klass 1972 box 10, folder 9 Rubik's Cube undated box 10, folder 10 Generalizing Hardy's Theorem undated box 10, folder 11 Problems 1933-1939 box 10, folder 12 Stochastic Proceses - Feller box 10, folder 13 Infinite Series and Fourier Series 1947-1948 box 10, folder 14 Pointsets and Real Functions (Punktmengen und reale Funktionen) undated box 10, folder 15 Positions of Zeros 1929-1937 box 10, folder 16 Schur Darstelungstheorie 1936 box 10, folder 17 Entire Series Satisfying Algebraic Differential Equations 1935 box 10, folder 18 Miscellaneous Notes 1978 box 10, folder 19 Miscellaneous Notes and Problems 1956-1985 box 10, folder 20 Pinboards and Geoboards undated box 10, folder 21 117A and Ingham 1966-1967 box 11, folder 1-3 Polyhedra and Other Enumerations 1964-1965

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box 11, folder 4 Miscellaneous Notes on Problems 1972-1977 box 11, folder 5 "Inequalities involving integrals of functions and their derivatives," by Donald Benson, 23pp (mimeograph) 1966 box 11, folder 6 "Our Aim is to Find an Approximation to n!" (typed paper, unknown author and date) undated box 11, folder 7 Miscellaneous Notes undated box 11, folder 8 "The basic concepts of Pólya’s theory of enumeration, with examples from the structural classification of mechanisms," by F. Freudenstein, 26pp (typescript) 1967 box 11, folder 9 "Variational Properties of Steady Fall in Stokes Flow", by H.F. Weinberger, 51pp (typescript) undated box 11, folder 10 Williamson, S.G. undated box 11, folder 11 Combination Problems Involving Points and Lines in a Plane undated box 11, folder 12 "Modern Heuristic in Historical Perspective With Implications for Research Pedagogy," by Elton Carter and Robert Richey, in General Semantics Bulletin (offprint) 1961-1962 box 11, folder 13 Pascal Letters, by Renyi (Manuscript of the Hungarian version of the Letters on Probability by Alfred Renyi) undated box 11, folder 14 Martin Gardner Problem 1966 box 11, folder 15 "The Problem of Packing a Number of Equal Nonoverlapping Circles on a Sphere," by H.S.M. Coxeter, in Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences (reprint), with notes by Pólya 1962 box 11, folder 16 "Example Generation," by Edwina Rissland, Computer and Information Science Technical Report 80-14 1980 box 11, folder 17 "On the Art of Problem Solving," by Murray S. Klamkin, Scientific Laboratory, Ford Motor Co., 41pp (publication preprint), plus graph by Pólya 1966 box 11, folder 18 "Transfinite Diameter and Analytic Continuation of Functions of Two Complex Variables", by M. Schiffer and J. Siciak, Tech. Rep. No. 1100, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Lab, Stanford, plus three pages of notes 1961 box 11, folder 19 "On Pólya Frequency Functions IV: The Fundamental Spline Functions and Their Limits", by H.B. Curry and I.J. Schoenberg, in Journal D’Analyse Mathematique 1966 box 11, folder 20 Handbook for Planning an Effective Mathematics Program, California State Department of Education 1982 box 11, folder 21 Radius of Circumscribed Sphere undated box 11, folder 22 Pal Turan and George Alexits death notices from Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1976, 1978 box 11, folder 23 "Counting of Isomeric Hydrocarbons with Asymptotic Results," by Joel G.W. Rogers, 26pp. (manuscript) 1971 box 11, folder 24 Miscellaneous Notes undated

Reprints and Articles Subseries 6

box 12, folder 1 Bib. #163: Heuristic reasoning and the theory of probability 1941 box 12, folder 2 Bib. #168: Approximations to the area of the ellipsoid 1943 box 12, folder 3 Bib. #172: A minimum problem about the motion of a solid through a fluid 1947 box 12, folder 4 Bib. #174: On patterns of plausible inference 1948 box 12, folder 5 Bib. #195, 196, 199: Two Notes on Minimum Principle Approximations, Techical report No. 29, Stanford, 1953; Estimates for Eigenvalues, Page Proofs, 1954 1953-1954 box 12, folder 6 Bib. #200: More isoperimetric inequalities proved and conjectured 1955 box 12, folder 7 Bib. #202, 203, 206: On the Characteristic Frequencies of a Symmetric Membrane, 15pp, Tech. Rep. No 40, Stanford, 1955 (2 copies); On the Ratio of Consecutive Eigenvalues, 21pp (with L.E. Payne and H.F. Weinberger), Tec. Rep. No 41, Stanford, 1955; The Mathematics Teacher, LII/1, 1959: Mathematics as a Subject for Learning Plausible Reasoning (translation) 1955-1959 box 12, folder 8 Bib. #209: Remarks on De La Vallee-Poussin Means and Convex Conformal Maps of the Circle, 76pp, Tech. Rep. No 70, Stanford (with I.J. Schoenberg), 1957 1957

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box 12, folder 9 Bib. #215, 219, 217: On the Eigenvalues of Vibrating Membranes; Two More Inequalities Between Physical and Geometrical Quantities -- Tech. Rep. No 88, Stanford, 1960; Archimedes (magazine), 1960, containing: Die Mathematische Erziehung (p.. 103) and Die Mathematikals Schule der plausiblen Schliessens (page proof, in back of magazine; The Mathematics Teacher (magazine), 1961, containing: The Minimum Fraction of Popular Vote that Can Elect the President of the United States 1960-1961 box 12, folder 10 Bib. #222: Intuitive outline of the solution of a basic combinatorial problem 1963 box 12, folder 11 Bib. #232, 236, 241, 249: Entiers Algebriques ... (1969); Two Incidents (1970); Stanford Competitive Exam (1973); On the Zeros ... (1976) 1969-1976 box 12, folder 12 Bib. #233: Some mathematicians I have known 1969 box 12, folder 13 Bib. #234: On the isoperimetric theorem: History and strategy 1969 box 12, folder 14 Bib. #235: Gaussian binomial coefficients and the enumeration of inversions 1970 box 12, folder 15 Bib. #237: Gaussian Binomial Coefficients (with G.L. Alexanderson) 1971 box 12, folder 16 Bib. #238: Methodology or Heuristics, Strategy or Tactics? 1971 box 12, folder 17 Bib. #239: Eine Erinnerung un Hermann Weyl 1972 box 12, folder 18 Bib. #240: A letter by Professor Pólya 1973 box 12, folder 19 Bib. #242: A story with a moral 1973 box 12, folder 20 Bib. #243: Formation, not only Information 1972 box 12, folder 21 Bib. #244: As I read them 1973 box 12, folder 22 Bib. #245: Partition of a finite set into structured subsets 1975 box 12, folder 23 Bib. #246: Probabilities in Proof-Reading 1976 box 12, folder 24 Bib. #247: Guessing and Proving 1976 box 12, folder 25 Bib. #248: As their students see them 1976 box 12, folder 26 Bib. #250: A note of welcome 1977 box 12, folder 27 Bib. #251: More on Guessing and Proving 1979 box 12, folder 28 Norsk Matematisk Tidsskrift 1950 box 12, folder 29 California Mathematics Council Bulletin 1954-1958 box 12, folder 30 Mathematical Log 1960 box 12, folder 31 Generalization, Specialization, Analogy 1961 box 12, folder 32 Dedication of Stanford University Computation Center 1963 box 12, folder 33 Die Heuristik and Conference Procedings 1964-1966 box 12, folder 34 Sylvania Competitive Examination 1960 box 12, folder 35 Miscellaneous Articles by Pólya 1962 box 13, folder 1 Some Articles by Pólya 1980 box 13, folder 2 Book: The 1953 Jennings Scholar Lectures 1963 box 13, folder 3 Book: Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and Its Applications 1979 box 13, folder 4 Book: Research Papers in Statistics 1966 box 13, folder 5 Book: Do You Teach? Views on College Teaching 1969 box 13, folder 6 Book: A Taste of Science 1975 box 14, folder 1 Pólya's Theory of Counting 1959-1965 box 14, folder 2 Articles about Pólya 1963-1988 box 14, folder 3 Articles and Journals related to Pólya 1966-1980 box 14, folder 4 Articles and Journals related to Pólya undated box 14, folder 5 "An Elementary Solution of Pólya's Orchard Problems," by Tracy Allen, 16pp (typescript) 1983 box 14, folder 6 "Omzien in bewondering," by N.G. de Bruijn, pamphlet, 18pp, retirement speach in Dutch (references to Pólya) 1984 box 14, folder 7 "II: Drunkard's Walk on an Infinite Lattice", by Peter Doyle, pp. 34-73 (typescript) 1980 box 14, folder 8 "A Method for Technological Predictions", by D.G. Ellson, 20pp (typescript), plus letter from Ellson comparing his paper to "Patterns of Plausible Inference" 1954-1955 box 14, folder 9 Two AI papers by Friedman (on Plausible Inference), typescript, with Pólya letter (presumably unsent) 1980 box 14, folder 10 David Hawkins publications 1964-1966

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box 14, folder 11 "The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems", Part I, Section 7: Apollonius, by Wilbur Knorr, 65pp (typescript), with note by Pólya, manuscript, crossed out, on back of letter 1981 box 14, folder 12 "Imre Lakatos e la 'filosofia della scoperta,'" by Genner Luigi Linguiti, Lucea 1981 box 14, folder 13 "What Every Secondary School Mathematics should Read" (references Pólya books), by Lowell Leake, Mathematics Teacher 1983

Miscellaneous Subseries 7

box 14, Stanford University Mathematics Examination 1946-1965 folder 14-15 box 14, folder 16 Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics 1976-1979 box 14, folder 17 Miscellaneous articles undated box 14, folder 18 Choice [Combinatorial Analysis] undated box 15, folder 1 Eckford Cohen 1968 box 15, folder 2 Bruno de Finetti 1971 box 15, folder 3 P. Cartier and D. Hejhal 1979 box 15, folder 4 Ernst Mohr 1962-1983 box 15, folder 5 S.C. Bhatnagar 1984 box 15, folder 6 Colin Thompson 1969-1971 box 15, folder 7 John Brillhart 1981 box 15, folder 8 Jean Pedersen undated box 15, folder 9 Imre Lakatos 1971-1978 box 15, folder 10 Antoine Ehrhard ~1982 box 15, folder 11 Latta - Complex Variables 1974-1977 box 15, folder 12 Paul Halmos 1972 box 15, folder 13 Feldzamen 1966 box 15, folder 14 Polyhedra - Federico 1975-1976 box 15, folder 15 Ars Expositionis: Euler as Writer and Teacher [typescript of paper by Gerald L. Alexanderson] 1982 box 15, folder 16 Fejer Lipot 1960 box 15, folder 17 John Ryff box 15, folder 18 Arne Baartz undated box 15, folder 19 Albert Einstein 1958 box 15, folder 20 Stella Pólya 1977 box 15, folder 21 Shiffman 1966 box 15, folder 22 School Mathematics Project 1967-1969 box 15, folder 23 Miscellaneous Hungarian Newspaper Clippings 1971, 1975 box 15, folder 24 Pólya and Wehl 1918 box 15, folder 25 Hilbert to Hurwitz 1900 box 15, folder 26 Herzberger 1972 box 15, folder 27 Miscellaneous Notes and Pieces of Paper undated box 16, folder 1-2 "Identification and Development of the Mathematically Talented - The Hungarian Experience," Agnes Arvai Wieschenberg Dissertation 1983 box 16, folder 3 Alvin White 1974-1975 box 17, folder 1 Miscellaneous Items 1911-1968 box 17, folder 2 Certificate 1976 box 17, folder 3 Honorary Ph.D., Univ. of Waterloo; photo box 17, folder 4 School Records (Hungarian/European) 1888-1914 box 17, folder 5 Assorted Awards 1920-1971 box 17, folder 6 Professional Associations 1950-1977 box 17, folder 7 Poster about lectures by Pólya 1980 box 17, folder 8 Slides for a Talk box 17, folder 9 Chessboard Thank You box 17, folder 10 Honorary Membership, Santa Clara Valley Mathematics Association 1976 box 17, folder 11 Santa Clara Valley Mathematics Association Life Member Plaque 1985 box 18, folder 1 Slides (graphs, diagrams, etc.) undated

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box 19, folder 1 Photograph Album 1917-1978 Scope and Contents note Includes other mathematicians and scientists, congresses and meetings, family images, and others; images are well labelled.

box 19, folder 2 Copy prints of images from Photograph Album box 19, folder 3 School Papers 1887-1905 box 21 Research note cards (mostly in German)

Restricted Materials Subseries 8

box 20 Class roll books 1960-1963 Additional Papers Accession ARCH-2003-185

box 1, folder 1-5 Miscellaneous Mathematical Notes box 1, folder 6 Miscellaneous Papers box 1, folder 7-9 Tributes to George Pólya 1957-1989 box 1, folder 10 Reminisces of Gorge Pólya 1973-1978 box 1, folder 11 Articles on Mathematics and Science (in English, German) 1933-1950 box 1, folder 12 Time Magazine article on post-Kennedy assassination 1963 box 1, folder 13 Articles on Lee and Grace Lorch 1957-1974 box 1, folder 14 Mathematical papers by Pólya (in English, French) 1958-1969 box 1, folder 15 Articles and obituaries of mathematicians (in English, French, German) 1938-1955 box 1, folder 16 Student Examinations (Blue Books) undated box 1, folder 17 Notes in preparation for Pólya’s book with Gábor Szego undated box 1, folder 18 Mathematical papers (in German) 1950-1952 box 1, folder 19 Speech to the International Congress of Mathematicians, Bologna 1928 box 1, folder 20 Summer Mathematical Conferences 1954-1955 box 1, folder 21 Trip to Zurich 1953-1954 box 1, National Lecture Tour 1955 folder 22-25 box 1, folder 26 Resumes of Pólya, undated box 1, folder 27 Correspondence, Trinity College, Cambridge, England 1951 box 1, folder 28 Pólya’s speeches box 1, folder 29 Book Reviews, "Problems and Theorems in Analysis" 1977 box 1, folder 30 Book Reviews, "Mathematical Discovery: On Understanding Learning and Teaching Problem Solving" 1963-1965 box 1, folder 31 Book Reviews, "How to Solve It" 1987 box 1, folder 32 Book Reviews, "The Stanford Mathematics Problem Book" 1974 box 1, folder 33 Book Reviews, "Notes on Introductory Combinatories" 1983 box 1, folder 34 Book Reviews, "Isometric Inequalities in Mathematics" 1951-1952 box 1, folder 35 Book Reviews, "Patterns of Plausible Inference" 1969 box 1, Book Reviews, "Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning" 1954-1963 folder 36-37 box 1, folder 38 Secretary of Defense William Perry, student of Pólya 1996 box 1, folder 39 Pamphlet "How to Teach Guessing" 1956 box 1, folder 40 Pólya Exhibit and Speech, Stanford 1987 box 1, folder 41 Pólya’s notes "On Plausible Reasoning" undated box 1, folder 42 Letters to Pólya 1941-1995 box 1, Papers on Mathematics 1941-1975 folder 43-44 box 1, folder 45 Correspondence 1932-1991 box 1, folder 46 Papers on Pólya Family History box 1, folder 47 Pamphlet, "The Four Color Theorem" 1971 box 1, The University of Tasmania 1955 folder 48-49 box 1, folder 50 Correspondence with Gerald Alexanderson, Santa Clara University 1972-1997

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box 1, folder 51 Summer Institute for Teachers of Collegiate Mathematics at Stanford, General File 1955 box 1, Summer Institute for Teachers of Collegiate Mathematics at Stanford, Professor folder 52-54 Schoenburg 1955 box 1, folder 55 Summer Institute for Teachers of Collegiate Mathematics at Stanford, Professor Allendoerfer 1955 box 1, folder 56 Summer Institute for Teachers of Collegiate Mathematics at Stanford, Professor Lehmer 1955 box 1, folder 57 Manuscript on Probabilities (in French) undated box 1, folder 58 Letters from Issai Schur and Carl Ludwig Siegel (in German) 1930-1932 box 1, folder 59 Papers for Pólya’s "Groups, Graphs and Chemical Compounds" (in German) 1930 box 1, folder 60 Paper "Zweck und Hillel" (in German) undated box 1, folder 61 Paper "Das Schliemen" (in German) undated box 1, folder 62 Papers in German and French 1940 box 1, folder 63 Manuscript of JLWV Jensen (in Danish) 1911 box 2, folder 1-4 Papers and correspondence on Pólya’s Collected Works box 2, folder 5 List of Dissertations 1914-1960 box 2, folder 6-7 News clippings 1953-1977 box 2, folder 8-19 Letters of recommendation 1943-1980 box 2, folder 20 Figures for "Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning" undated box 2, folder 21 Papers from Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris (in French) undated box 2, folder 22 Papers on Robert Weber, Stella Pólya’s father 1850-1915 box 2, folder 23 Correspondence with Swiss educators on problem solving (in German, French) 1931-1932 box 2, folder 24 Physical problems often involving differential equations (in German) undated box 2, folder 25 Notes on "finite" Fourier integrals 1945 box 2, folder 26 Postcards from Edmund Landau box 2, folder 27 Examinations, Stanford 1946-1951 box 2, Papers from the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich 1924-1940 folder 28-30 box 2, folder 31 Mathematical Association of America lectures 1956 box 2, folder 32 Stanford Mathematics Fellowship Program 1957 box 2, folder 33 Two papers by Alexandre Wittenberg (in French) 1957 box 2, folder 34 Paper on "Structure-Counting Functions" 1958 box 2, folder 35 Institute for High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics 1957-1958 box 2, folder 36 Social Aspects of Science 1957 box 2, folder 37 Pamphlet "Synthesis" (in Dutch) undated box 2, Putnam Mathematical Competition 1948-1949 folder 38-40 box 2 "Code Civil Suisse" (in French) 1907 box 2 "Seminar Aufgaben" (in German) 1929 box 2 "Aufirahme Porifung" (in German) 1935 box 2 Notes (in German) 1937 box 2 Daily Log Book (in German) undated box 2 Draft of Pólya’s doctoral dissertation (in Hungarian) 1912 box 2 "Vom Sternenhimmel" (in German) undated box 2 "Twenty-Five Lessons in Citizenship" 1945 box 2 "Federal Textbook on Citizenship" 1943 box 2 "Buchbinderarbeiten" (in German) 1928 box 2 "Biztositasi Szemle" (in Hungarian) 1955 box 2 "Methode vol Laguerre zur Bestimmung des Geschlechts einer ganzen Funkton" (in German) 1914 box 2 "Tolstoi" (in German) 1907 box 2 "Biztositasi" (in Hungarian) 1956 box 3 Unsorted papers Additional Papers Accession ARCH-2009-240

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box 1 Correspondence (some in photocopy form, some to Gerald Alexanderson), papers by others, biographical articles, source materials on other mathematicians, and a few photographs. Processing Information Loose materials were put into folders for protection; items in individual folders may not relate to each other.

box 2 Reprints and other published materials by Pólya and others Additional Papers Accession ARCH-2016-095

Box 1 Materials from exhibit at Mathematics & Statistics (Math-Stat) Library circa 1985-1987

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