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Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-born American mathematician and is regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century. Chern graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin, China in 1930; he received an M.S. degree in 1934 from Tsinghua University in Beijing and his doctorate ...
Apr 1, 2008 · SHIING-SHEN CHERN: 1911–2004. H. WU. Shiing-shen Chern, one of the giants in the history of geometry, passed a way in. Tianjin, China, on December 3, 2004, at the age of ninet y-three. He had ...
OBITUARY. SHIING-SHEN CHERN 1911–2004. Shiing-Shen Chern was a towering figure in mathematics, both for his contributions to differential geometry and as a source of inspiration and encouragement for all mathematicians, and particularly those in China. Born in the final year of the Qing dynasty, and educated at a time when China was only ...
CHERN, SHIING-SHEN. ( b. Jia Xin, Chekiang Province, China, 26 October 1911; d. Tianjin, China, 3 December 2004), mathematics, differential geometry. Chern was a highly influential figure in pure mathematics. From the 1940s onward he redefined the subject of differential geometry by drawing on, and contributing to, the rapid development of ...
Oct 26, 2016 · Today is the birthday of mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern, who was born in China's Zhejiang province in 1911. He earned his PhD from the University of Hamburg in Germany in 1936. Chern is known for his work in differential geometry, specifically the relationship between curvature and topology. His Chern classes, as they came to be called, differentiate various types of surfaces in ...
S. S. Chern was indeed one of the central figures of twentieth century mathematics and is counted as nothing less than the main architect of modern differential geometry in the wake of Elie Cartan. This collection of 118 of his papers is an appropriate tribute to him and his work.
Shiing-Shen Chern: A Great Geometer of 20th Century. At the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University, we have launched a new lecture series called “The History and Literature of Mathematics.”. The purpose of these lectures is to introduce key developments in various branches of modern mathematics to students ...
