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István Fáry

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István Fáry
Born(1922-06-30)30 June 1922
Gyula, Hungary
Died2 November 1984(1984-11-02) (aged 62)
El Cerrito, California
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.[1] 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.[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.

References

  1. ^ 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).
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