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Shiing-Shen Chern (/ tʃ ɜːr n /; Chinese: 陳省身, Mandarin: [tʂʰən.ɕiŋ.ʂən]; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology .
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 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. Chern graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin, China, in 1930; he received an M.S. degree in 1934.
Professor Shiing-Shen Chern, one of the outstanding mathematicians of the twentieth century, died at age 93 in Tianjin, China, on December 3, 2004 at the Nankai Institute that he helped to found on the campus of Tianjin University where he received his undergraduate degree in 1930.
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 was a Chinese American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and ...
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