Chern
| Shiing-Shen Chern 陳省身 |
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Shiing-Shen Chern, 1976
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| Born |
October 26, 1911 Jiaxing, Zhejiang, Qing Empire |
| Died | December 3, 2004 (aged 93) Tianjin, People's Republic of China |
| Citizenship | People's Republic of China and United States (multiple citizenship) |
| Nationality | Chinese and American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Tsinghua University Institute for Advanced Study University of Chicago University of California, Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Nankai University |
| Alma mater |
Nankai University University of Hamburg |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Blaschke |
| Doctoral students |
Louis Auslander Thomas Banchoff Manfredo do Carmo Robert B. Gardner Howard Garland Harold Levine Katsumi Nomizu William F. Pohl Alan Weinstein Shing-Tung Yau |
| Known for |
Chern–Simons theory Chern–Weil theory Chern class |
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| Traditional Chinese | 陳省身 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 陈省身 | ||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Xǐngshēn |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Chern Shiing-Shen |
Shiing-Shen Chern (Chinese: 陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn, Mandarin: [tʂʰən.ɕiŋ.ʂən]; October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize.
Shiing-Shen Chern spent nearly a decade at the University of Chicago before moving to University of California, Berkeley, where he co-founded the world-renowned Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in 1982 and was the institute's founding director. In memory of Shiing-Shen Chern, the International Mathematical Union established the Chern Medal in 2010 to recognize "an individual whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics".
Chern was born in Xiushui County (縣), Jiaxing, in Zhejiang province. The year after his birth, China changed its regime from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. He graduated from Xiushui Middle School (秀水中學) and subsequently moved to Tianjin in 1922 to accompany his father. In 1926, after spending four years in Tianjin, Chern graduated from Fulun High School ().
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