Pólyas

Pólyas is the plural form used to refer to people bearing the Hungarian surname Pólya. The name is of Hungarian origin and appears in scientific and academic literature as Pólya.

The most prominent bearer is George Pólya (1887–1985). Born in Budapest, he emigrated to the United States where he became a leading mathematics educator and theorist. He wrote How to Solve It (1945), a foundational text on heuristic problem solving, and contributed to combinatorics with Polya's enumeration theorem.

In probability and statistics, the Polya urn model is a stochastic process named after Pólya, illustrating reinforcement. In combinatorics, Polya's enumeration theorem provides a method for counting distinct configurations under symmetry, with applications in chemistry, crystallography, and graph theory.

The surname may appear in various spellings depending on language, and Pólyas may refer collectively to people with this surname. The article does not imply a single entity beyond the surname.