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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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
Chern was the first who succeeded in building a bridge between intrinsic geometry and algebraic topology for manifolds of all dimensions, not just surface. (Cartan’s work in differential geometry was more local in nature, except his investigation of Lie groups and symmetric spaces.)
