Mathematician:Shiing-Shen Chern

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 Class

• 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.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Shiing-Shen Chern": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive