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.

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Label Occurrences
Shiing-Shen Chern canonical 14
陳省身 2
S. S. Chern 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese-American mathematician ⓘ
human ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ
awardReceived Chern Medal ⓘ
surface form: 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–Weil theory ⓘ
surface form: 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 ⓘ
Gauss–Bonnet theorem (early form) ⓘ
surface form: 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 ⓘ
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form: United States National Academy of Sciences
name Shiing-Shen Chern self-link ⓘ
nativeName Shiing-Shen Chern self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: 陳省身
positionHeld director of the Institute of Mathematics at Academia Sinica ⓘ
founding director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute ⓘ
professor of mathematics ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chern Medal → namedAfter → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Shiing-Shen Chern → name → Shiing-Shen Chern self-link ⓘ
Shiing-Shen Chern → nativeName → Shiing-Shen Chern self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: 陳省身
Annals of Mathematics Studies → hasNotableAuthor → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
this entity surface form: S. S. Chern
Chern–Weil theory → namedAfter → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Nanjing University → hasNotableAlumni → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Shiing-Shen → name → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
subject surface form: Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen → nativeName → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
subject surface form: Shiing-Shen Chern
this entity surface form: 陳省身
Chern classes → namedAfter → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Chern classes → introducedBy → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Chern–Simons theory → namedAfter → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Chern–Simons theory → introducedBy → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Wilhelm Blaschke → notableStudent → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute → founder → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Committee on the Chern Medal → namedAfter → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
南开大学 → 知名校友 → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
this entity surface form: 陈省身
Chern character → namedAfter → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ
Shing-Tung Yau → doctoralAdvisor → Shiing-Shen Chern ⓘ