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Shiing-Shen Chern ( / tʃɜːrn /; 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.
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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 ...
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.
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That is, the theory forms a bridge between the areas of algebraic topology and differential geometry. It was developed in the late 1940s by Shiing-Shen Chern and André Weil, in the wake of proofs of the generalized Gauss–Bonnet theorem. This theory was an important step in the theory of characteristic classes .
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.
