Luckily for the world, he dodged the 'startup craze' bullet ;) - by living before it started up :)
>but Wikipedia does not show anything else
go look at the wikipedia page for george polya and tell me what state of mind you need to be in to conclude that he didn't accomplish anything outside of publishing that book.
also btw
>born in 1887
he lived very long and had a very long career so you're still right
>Died September 7, 1985 (aged 97)
> "so you're still not close"
I'm "still" not close? Still not close ... to what?
Who exactly are you quoting here? My comment doesn't contain that phrase.
> The guy misread a Wikipedia page
I don't know how it's possible to "misread" a wiki that's all of 500 words and has things like this:
> He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
> There are three prizes named after Pólya,
> Stanford University has a Polya Hall named in his honor.
Except in so far as he was temporarily blinded by arrogance.
> I'm "still" not close? Still not close ... to what?
Still not close to any semblance of a convincing rebuke.
> "I don't know how it's possible to "misread" a wiki"
Great, thanks for your informative contributions. Don't forget to be offended and accuse someone of ignorance and arrogance just because you don't understand. That's useful.
> "Still not close to any semblance of a convincing rebuke"
His death was still so long ago that more than half the population of Earth wasn't even born at the time.
conventionally (but you're free to diverge of course) double quotes, like in
> "beyond offended"
are for quoting someone/something.