I never met Pólya in person, but I met his and Szegö's book, "Aufgaben und Lehrsätze aus der Analysis," as an undergraduate at the University of Detroit, probably in 1964. The person responsible for the meeting was Prof. Caslav Stanojevic, who taught me a reading course on whatever came to mind, and this book was an important part of that course. I don't remember how much of the book I got through, but it certainly influenced my general mathematical development. (It seems that my computer and/or stackexchange software have put some limitations on accents here. Anyone who can produce here what TeX would produce from Szeg\H{o}, \v{C}aslav, and Stanojevi'{c} is welcome to edit.)

I never met Pólya in person, but I met his and Szegő's book, "Aufgaben und Lehrsätze aus der Analysis," as an undergraduate at the University of Detroit, probably in 1964. The person responsible for the meeting was Prof. Časlav Stanojević, who taught me a reading course on whatever came to mind, and this book was an important part of that course. I don't remember how much of the book I got through, but it certainly influenced my general mathematical development.