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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 · Shiing-shen Chern was a Chinese mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebraic topology. View eleven larger pictures. Biography. Shiing-shen Chern's father, Baozhen Chern, was a classically trained Confucian scholar who later became a lawyer working for the government.
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.
Many mathematicians consider Shiing-Shen Chern to be the outstanding contributor to research in differential geometry in the second half of the twentieth century. Just as geometry in the first half-century bears the indelible stamp of Elie Cartan, so the´ seal of Chern appears large on the canvas of geometry that has been painted in the
Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004) was a Chinese mathematician internationally recognized as the foremost differential geometer of his time. Chern was a Member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study on numerous occasions beginning in 1943 through 1964.
Shiing Shen Chern is one of the greatest living geometers. He was born on October 28, 1911, in Jia Xin, China. His father had a degree in law and worked for the government. When Chern was a youngster, China was just starting to establish West- ern-style colleges and universities.
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.
On that day, Shiing-Shen Chern died at his home in Tianjin, China, at the age of ninety-three. His profound mathematical gifts and ebullient personality were warmly remembered at a memorial service held on the campus of the University of California, Berke-ley, on February 13, 2005.
Dec 7, 2004 · Dr. Shiing-Shen Chern, a mathematician whose seemingly purely abstract discoveries about the twistings of geometric surfaces have found wide use in physics and mathematics, died Friday at his...
Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004) Share. Print. I was born in 1911 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China. I graduated from Nankai University in 1930. After graduation I spent four years (1930 – 1934) at Tsinghua University in Peiping, the first year as an assistant in the Department of Mathematics and the last three years as a graduate student. In 1934 I received the MSc degree from Tsinghua and was awarded a two-year scholarship to study abroad.
