István Fáry

István Fáry
Born(1922-06-30)30 June 1922
Died2 November 1984(1984-11-02) (aged 62)
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forKnot theory
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorJean Leray

István Fáry (30 June 1922 – 2 November 1984) was a Hungarian-born mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight-line embedding in 1948, and the Fáry–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949.