Fields Mathematics Alma mater University of Paris Known for Knot theory | Name Istvan Fary Doctoral advisor Jean Leray Role Mathematician | |
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Born 30 June 1922
Gyula, Hungary ( 1922-06-30 ) Institutions University of California, Berkeley Doctoral students Gulbank Chakerian
Louis Feldman
Kenneth Mount Died November 2, 1984, El Cerrito, California, United States Education University of Szeged, University of Paris | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
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.
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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.