Studies in Mathematical Analysis and Related Topics: Essays in Honor of George Polya

This volume, published on the occasion of his 75th birthday, contains sixty original papers by leading mathematicians of the United States and Europe who have been inspired by the teaching or researches of Professor Polya, together with a list of Polya's publications and a preface by the editors on his distinguished career. Most of the papers are in fields to which P61ya himself has contributed, and many of the authors indicate Polya's influence on the development of their subjects and give fuller historical backgrounds than are usual in research papers. Predictably one finds the names of Boas, Erdelyi, Hayman, Littlewood, Szego, Titchmarsh, Zygmund and others in the list of authors, but the presence of such names as Brauer, Coxeter and Davenport is a striking reminder of the breadth of Polya's interests and his contributions to pure and applied mathematics. It was not to be expected that every one of the authors could produce a specimen of his most memorable work to order for the occasion, but this well-produced volume is a worthy tribute to one of the most outstanding mathematicians of our time.
P. HEYWOOD, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 14(1) 1964 , p.82.