High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! How to Solve It (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya describing methods of problem solving.George Pólya (December 13, 1887 September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György) was a Hungarian mathematician.He was born as Pólya György in Budapest, Hungary to originally Jewish parents Anna Deutsch and Jakab Pólya who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University carrying on as Stanford Professor Emeritus the rest of his life and career. He worked on a great variety of mathematical topics, including series, number theory, mathematical analysis, geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and probability.