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Uncommon card · Science
George Pólya, an Uncommon card
George Pólya was a Hungarian-American mathematician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 45,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
George Pólya quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the George Pólya card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is also noted for his work in heuristics and ______ education.
Answer
mathematics. He is also noted for his work in heuristics and mathematics education. From the George Pólya article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
George Pólya. George Pólya 63 · Pyroxene 60 · Minibus 57 · Flambé 53 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.
- He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, complex analysis, numerical analysis and probability theory.
- He is also noted for his work in heuristics and mathematics education.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Pólya article was read about 45,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get George Pólya
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, George Pólya (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unbekannt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.