My love affair with George Pólya began when I was seventeen. It
was in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and my first year at the university was
coming to an end. I had come across a tiny local library with an
even tinier math section, which nobody ever seemed...
How do we navigate the vast amount of data at our disposal? How
do we choose a movie to watch, out of the 75,000 movies available
on Netflix? Or a new book to read, among the 800,000 listed on
Amazon? Or which news articles to read, out of the...