Shiing-Shen 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 | 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 Nankai University Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang 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 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. A professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, Shiing-Shen Chern is widely regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century and a highly influential mathematician, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the Shaw Prize.
Shiing-Shen Chern co-founded the world-renowned Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley 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 ().
At age 15, Chern entered the Faculty of Sciences of the Nankai University in Tianjin, studied mathematics there, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1930. At Nankai, Chern's mentor was Li-Fu Chiang (), a Harvard-trained geometer. Also at Nankai, he was heavily influenced by the physicist RaoYuTai(饶毓泰). Rao is today considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern Chinese informatics.
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