István Fáry
Mathematician, Academic
1922 – 1984
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Who was István Fáry?
István Fáry 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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- Born
- Jun 30, 1922
Gyula - Profession
- Education
- University of Paris
- University of Szeged
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Nov 2, 1984
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on July 23, 2013
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