Shiing-Shen Chern
28 October 1911 – 3 December 2004
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the 20th century. He is known for the Chern classes and the Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem, and he trained generations of geometers while building major mathematical institutions in both the United States and China.
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Life events
Shiing-Shen Chern was born in Jiaxing, in China's Zhejiang province.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChern completed graduate study in mathematics at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChern earned his PhD under Wilhelm Blaschke in Germany.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorking at the Institute for Advanced Study, Chern gave a groundbreaking intrinsic proof of the generalized Gauss–Bonnet theorem.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChern developed the characteristic classes now bearing his name, fundamental tools in geometry and topology.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChern joined Berkeley, where he built a major center for geometry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChern was a founding director of MSRI in Berkeley.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChern received the Wolf Prize for his contributions to global differential geometry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChern died in Tianjin, where he had helped establish the Chern Institute of Mathematics at Nankai University.
Source: en.wikipedia.org