István Fáry

Hungarian-American mathematician (1922–1984)

István Fáry

Born	(1922-06-30)30 June 1922 Gyula, Hungary
Died	2 November 1984(1984-11-02) (aged 62) El Cerrito, California
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.^[1] 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.

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.^[1]

Selected publications

Fáry, István (1948), "On straight-line representation of planar graphs", Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged), 11: 229–233, MR 0026311.
Fáry, István (1949), "Sur la courbure totale d'une courbe gauche faisant un nœud", Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, 77: 128–138, doi:10.24033/bsmf.1405.

References

^ ^a ^b S. S. Chern, R. J. DeVogelaere, and R. C. Kirby (1985), "Istvan Fary, Mathematics: Berkeley", University of California: In Memoriam, California Digital Library{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).