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Name: Shiing-shen Chern
Birth Date: 1911
Nationality: Chinese
Gender: Male
Occupations: Mathematician

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Biography of Shiing-shen Chern
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Shiing-Shen Chern has specialized in differential geometry and he studied what are now known as the Chern characteristic classes in fibre spaces. This work has relevance in mathematics as well as mathematical physics. Chern also produced a proof of the...


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1911- Chern was born in 1911 in Jiaxing, China, where he eventually studied at Nankai University in Tientsin. He was offered a scholarship to study in America but instead chose the University of Hamburg because of his high regard for Prof. Blaschke,...
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Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26 1911 – December 3 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide";...


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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Shiing-shen Chern
03/01/2007: 1,622 words, approx. 5 pages
26 OCTOBER 1911 * 3 DECEMBER 2004 SHIING-SHEN CHERN, one of the giants in the history of geometry, passed away in Tianjin, China, on 3 December 2004 at the age of ninety-three. He had spent the last five years of his life in...


 

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