Shiing-Shen Chern Summary

Shiing-Shen Chern 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 U... Read more

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 math... Read more