# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/istvan-fary
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:10:15.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/istvan-fary"
name: "István Fáry"
slug: "istvan-fary"
description: "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 Fáry–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949."
tagline: "Hungarian mathematician (1922–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Istv%C3%A1n_F%C3%A1ry.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-06-30"
deathDate: "1984-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.0027
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Иштван Фари"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_F%C3%A1ry"
    title: "István Fáry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_F%C3%A1ry"
    title: "István Fáry"
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    title: "István Fáry"
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    title: "István Fáry"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1ry_Istv%C3%A1n"
    title: "Fáry István"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%88%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
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    title: "Фари, Иштван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump