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1945-48 first return to China. Chern returned to Shanghai in 1945 to help found the Institute of Mathematics of the Academia Sinica. Chern was the acting president of the institute. Wu Wenjun was Chern's graduate student at the institute. In 1948, Chern was elected one of the first academicians of the Academia Sinica.
Dec 3, 2004 · At the end of World War II, Chern returned to China reaching Shanghai in March 1946. He was asked to set up the Institute of Mathematics of the Academia Sinica in Nanking which he did very successfully.
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Dec 7, 2004 · He returned to China after World War II and helped found a mathematics institute for Academia Sinica. The civil war in China led Dr. Chern to leave China again and return to the Institute...
Chern received an appointment as Professor of Mathematics at Qing Hua in 1937. But before he could return to China, invading Japanese forces had touched off the long and tragic Sino-Japanese war. Qing Hua joined with Peking University and Nankai University to form a three-university consortium, first at Changsha, and then, be-
When the war ended in 1945, Chern began his return to China but only reached Shanghai in March 1946. There he was given the task of setting up an Institute of Mathematics as part of the Academia Sinica. He did this very successfully, nurturing several outstanding mathemati -
A year later he returned to Tsinghua as professor of mathematics. Chern was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, from 1943 to 1945. In 1946 he returned to China to become acting director of the Institute of Mathematics at the Academia Sinica in Nanjing.
Dec 6, 2004 · He returned again in 1945 to China, where he set about creating a mathematics institute for the Academia Sinica, first in Shanghai and then in Nanking. As the Chinese civil war approached Nanking, his friends arranged for the Institute for Advanced Study to offer him a second position, which he accepted.
