István Fáry
István Fáry | |
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| Born | 30 June 1922 |
| Died | 2 November 1984 (aged 62) |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Known for | Knot theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean 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.