Shiing-Shen Chern

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Chinese-American mathematician 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.

Aliases (2)

S. S. Chern ×1
陳省身 ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chinese-American mathematician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Chern Medal (namesake) → Leroy P. Steele Prize → Lobachevsky Prize → National Medal of Science → Wolf Prize in Mathematics →
birthCountry	China →
birthDate	1911-10-28 →
birthPlace	Jiaxing →
countryOfCitizenship	China → United States of America →
deathDate	2004-12-03 →
deathPlace	Tianjin →
doctoralAdvisor	Herbert Busemann → Wilhelm Blaschke →
educatedAt	Nankai University → Tsinghua University → University of Hamburg →
employer	Institute for Advanced Study → Nankai University → Tsinghua University → University of California, Berkeley → University of Chicago →
familyName	Chern →
fieldOfWork	differential geometry → mathematics → topology →
founded	Mathematical Sciences Research Institute →
givenName	Shiing-Shen →
hasAcademicDiscipline	Riemannian geometry → complex geometry → fiber bundles →
influenced	modern differential geometry →
knownFor	Chern classes → Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem → Chern–Simons theory → Chern–Weil theory → foundational work in differential geometry →
languageSpoken	Chinese → English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → Chinese Academy of Sciences → Royal Society → United States National Academy of Sciences →
name	Shiing-Shen Chern →
nativeName	陳省身 →
positionHeld	director of the Institute of Mathematics at Academia Sinica → founding director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute → professor of mathematics →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Annals of Mathematics Studies ("S. S. Chern") →	hasNotableAuthor
Shiing-Shen Chern →	name
Chern Medal →	namedAfter
Shiing-Shen Chern ("陳省身") →	nativeName