István Fáry
Hungarian mathematician
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| Intro | Hungarian mathematician | |
| Places | Hungary | |
| was | Mathematician | |
| Work field | Mathematics | |
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| Birth | 30 June 1922, Gyula, Gyula District, Békés County, Hungary | |
| Death | 2 November 1984El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California, U.S.A. (aged 62 years) |
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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 Fary–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949.
Biography
Fáry was born June 30, 1922 in Gyula, Hungary.
After studying for a master's degree at the University of Budapest, he moved to the University of Szeged, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1947. He then studied at the Sorbonne before taking a faculty position at the University of Montreal in 1955. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1958 and became a full professor in 1962. He died on November 2, 1984, in El Cerrito, California.
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