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    Shiing-Shen Chern (/tʃɜːrn/; Chinese: 陳省身, Mandarin: [tʂʰən.ɕiŋ.ʂən]; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician and poet...
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  • In mathematics, the Chern theorem (or the Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem after Shiing-Shen Chern, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Pierre Ossian Bonnet) states that...
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  • In mathematics, the Chern–Simons forms are certain secondary characteristic classes. The theory is named for Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons...
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  • named after mathematicians Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, who introduced the Chern–Simons 3-form. In the Chern–Simons theory, the action is...
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  • string theory, Chern–Simons theory, knot theory, Gromov–Witten invariants. Chern classes were introduced by Shiing-Shen Chern (1946). Chern classes are characteristic...
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  • and differential geometry. It was developed in the late 1940s by Shiing-Shen Chern and André Weil, in the wake of proofs of the generalized Gauss–Bonnet...
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  • Chinese mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern. The award is a joint effort of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the Chern Medal Foundation (CMF)...
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    Retrieved 4 November 2012. O'Connor, J J; Robertson, E F. "Chern biography: Shiing-shen Chern". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Archived from the...
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    his studies on pattern recognition. He developed the Chern–Simons form (with Shiing-Shen Chern), and contributed to the development of string theory...
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    2003, mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern visited Wenzhou as invited by Wenzhounese mathematician Gu Chaohao. During his visit, Chern wrote five words in...
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    Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai, mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern and Nobel laureates Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee. The university...
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    September 1982 by three Berkeley professors: Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore, and Isadore M. Singer. Shiing-Shen Chern acted as the founding director of the...
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  • Chern's conjecture for affinely flat manifolds was proposed by Shiing-Shen Chern in 1955 in the field of affine geometry. As of 2018, it remains an unsolved...
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    He also worked on partial differential equations, coauthored with Shiing-Shen Chern, Robert Bryant and Robert Gardner on Exterior Differential Systems...
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  • Chern may refer to: Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004), Chinese-American mathematician Chern class, a type of characteristics class associated to complex vector...
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  • Normale Supérieure for girls. As a student of Cartan, the geometer Shiing-Shen Chern wrote: Usually the day after [meeting with Cartan] I would get a letter...
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  • proponent of the exterior calculus Elie Cartan, the influential geometer Shiing-Shen Chern summarizes the role of tensor calculus: In our subject of differential...
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  • Masahito Yamazaki. It is named after mathematicians Shiing-Shen Chern and James Simons who discovered the Chern–Simons 3-form appearing in the theory. The gauge...
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    Science Foundation and at the request of three Berkeley mathematicians—Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore, and Isadore M. Singer. The institute is now widely...
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    Honors College. Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem Atiyah–Singer index theorem Chern, Shiing-Shen (March 4, 1998). "Interview with Shiing-Shen Chern" (PDF) (Interview)...
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    co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) with Shiing-Shen Chern and Calvin Moore. Singer was born on May 3, 1924, in Detroit, Michigan...
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  • analogue of Chern–Simons theory, named after Shiing-Shen Chern and James Simons who first studied Chern–Simons forms which appear in the action of Chern–Simons...
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  • bundle, then the Chern connection coincides with the Levi-Civita connection of the associated Riemannian metric. Shiing-Shen Chern, Complex Manifolds...
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    interaction; mathematician and winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics Shiing-Shen Chern, biologist Min Chueh Chang, theoretical physicist Zhou Peiyuan, astronomer...
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  • supersymmetry, string theory, and quantum field theory. He is currently the Shiing-Shen Chern Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. Freed studied at Harvard...
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    Yamabe flow and proved its long-time existence. In collaboration with Shiing-Shen Chern, Hamilton studied certain variational problems for Riemannian metrics...
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  • } denotes the cup product of cohomology classes. As was shown by Shiing-Shen Chern and André Weil around 1948, the rational Pontryagin classes pk(E,Q)∈H4k(M...
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  • Shiing-Shen Chern, the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Beijing – the first time in a developing country, with Chern being...
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  • According to the Chinese-American mathematician and Wolf Prize laureate Shiing-Shen Chern, "Wei-Liang was an original and versatile mathematician, although...
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    curvature also carries over to orbifolds, along with the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem and Shiing-Shen Chern's proof thereof. Satake, I. (1956), "On a generalization...
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