The world of math may owe a debt of gratitude to soccer. An injury from that sport is what prevented George Pólya from entering the Hungarian army during World War I. Pólya was a sort of mathematical ...

Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk, a 70-year-old math problem by Béatrice St-Cyr-Leroux, University of Montreal Editors' notes Add as preferred source ...