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It was at the IAS that his work culminated in his publication of the generalization of the famous Gauss–Bonnet theorem to higher dimensional manifolds, now known today as the Chern theorem. It is widely considered to be his magnum opus.
Dec 3, 2004 · 26 October 1911. Chia-hsing (or Jiaxing), Chekiang province (now Zhejiang), China. Died. 3 December 2004. Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, China. Summary. Shiing-shen Chern was a Chinese mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebraic topology. View eleven larger pictures. Biography.
Shiing-Shen. Chern. Dedicated to S. S. Chern for the celebration of his 79th Birthday Richard S. Palais and Chuu-Lian Terng. Introduction. Many mathematicians consider Shiing-Shen Chern to be the outstanding contributor to research in differential geometry in the second half of the twentieth century.
Shiing-shen Chern (born October 26, 1911, Jiaxing, China—died December 3, 2004, Tianjin) was a Chinese American mathematician and educator whose researches in differential geometry developed ideas that now play a major role in mathematics and in mathematical physics.
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The Chern–Simons theory is a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type developed by Edward Witten. It was discovered first by mathematical physicist Albert Schwarz. It is named after mathematicians Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, who introduced the Chern–Simons 3-form.
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Theory & Foundations. Affiliations. University of California, Berkeley. Shiing-shen Chern was awarded the National Medal of Science for developing and extending techniques that led to profound discoveries in geometry and topology.
