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==Reception==
[[Richard Askey]] and Paul Nevai wrote of the book that, "there is a general consensus among mathematicians that the two-volume Pólya-Szegő is the best written and most useful problem book in the history of mathematics."<ref name=Walks/>{{rp|59}} The book has had its admirers. Many eminent mathematicians had read over the [[galley proofs]] while the work was in press ([[Paul Bernays|Bernays]], [[Richard Courant|Courant]], Fejer, [[Edmund Landau|E. Landau]], [[Frigyes Riesz|F. Riesz]], [[Otto Toeplitz|Toeplitz]])<ref name=PTA1/>{{rp|xii-xiii}} and its early reviewers (F. Riesz again, [[Konrad Knopp|Knopp]], [[Jacob Tamarkin|Tamarkin]]) were not much less impressive, all effusive in their praise.<ref name=Walks/>{{rp|58-60}} The careful pedagogy meant that graduate students were able to learn analysis from ''Problems and Theorems'' alone.<ref name=Walks/>{{rp|58}} [[Paul Erdős]] once approached a young mathematician with a problem taken from volume II and announced "I will give $10 to China if you can solve this problem in ten minutes".<ref name=SzegoCP/>{{rp|27}}
A Russian translation was published in 1937–38. An English translation was published in 1972–76.<ref name=SzegoCP/>{{rp|23}}
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