Shiing-Shen

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geometer human mathematician

Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to differential geometry and the development of Chern classes in topology.

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Label	Occurrences
Shiing-Shen canonical	2

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geometer ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ
awardReceived	Lobachevsky Prize ⓘ surface form: Lobachevsky Medal National Medal of Science ⓘ Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement ⓘ Wolf Prize in Mathematics ⓘ
birthDate	1911-10-28 ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	China ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	2004-12-03 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Herbert Busemann ⓘ Wilhelm Blaschke ⓘ
educatedAt	Nankai University ⓘ Tsinghua University ⓘ University of Hamburg ⓘ
employer	Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ Nankai University ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Chinese ⓘ
familyName	Chern ⓘ
fieldOfWork	differential geometry ⓘ global differential geometry ⓘ mathematics ⓘ topology ⓘ
founded	Mathematical Sciences Research Institute ⓘ Nankai University ⓘ surface form: Nankai Institute of Mathematics
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	Shiing-Shen self-linksurface differs ⓘ
knownFor	Chern classes ⓘ Gauss–Bonnet theorem (early form) ⓘ surface form: Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem Chern–Simons theory ⓘ surface form: Chern–Simons forms Chern–Weil theory ⓘ foundational work in differential geometry ⓘ
languageSpoken	Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ
memberOf	Academia Sinica ⓘ American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Chinese Academy of Sciences ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ surface form: United States National Academy of Sciences
movement	20th-century mathematics ⓘ
name	Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
nativeName	Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ surface form: 陳省身
notableStudent	S. S. Chern school of differential geometry ⓘ Shing-Tung Yau ⓘ
placeOfBirth	China ⓘ Jiaxing ⓘ Zhejiang Province ⓘ surface form: Zhejiang
placeOfDeath	China ⓘ Tianjin ⓘ
positionHeld	professor of mathematics ⓘ

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