Mathematician:Shiing-Shen Chern
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Mathematician
Chinese-American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology.
Wolf Prize
Shiing-Shen Chern was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1983/84}$:
- For outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.
Nationality
Chinese
History
- Born: 28 October 1911 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, Xinhai China
- Died: 3 December 2004 Tianjin, China
Theorems and Definitions
- Chern-Lashof Theory (with Richard K. Lashof)
- Chern-Simons Theory (with James Harris Simons)
- Chern-Simons Form (with James Harris Simons)
- Chern-Weil Theory (with André Abraham Weil)
- Chern-Weil Homomorphism (with André Abraham Weil)
- Chern's Conjecture
- Chern's Conjecture (Differential Geometry)
- Chern-Bott Formula (with Raoul Bott)
- Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem (with Carl Friedrich Gauss and Pierre Ossian Bonnet)
Publications
- 1951: Topics in Differential Geometry
- 1953: Differential Manifolds
- 1956: Complex Manifolds
- 1968: Minimal Submanifolds in a Riemannian Manifold
- 1979: Complex manifolds Without Potential Theory
Also known as
- Chinese: 陳省身
- Pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn
Chern is his family name.