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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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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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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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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Wenzhou (section Shiing-Shen Chern)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Élie Cartan, the influential geometer Shiing-Shen Chern summarizes the role of tensor calculus: In our subject of differential...
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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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Nicolaas Kuiper, Raoul Bott, John Milnor, Stephen Smale, Armand Borel, Shiing-Shen Chern, Kunihiko Kodaira, Donald Spencer, Michael Atiyah, Isadore Singer...
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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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Van Duyn, 83, American poet, US Poet Laureate (1992), bone cancer. Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Chinese mathematician, heart failure following heart attack....
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Further work from the 1930s onwards was carried out by J. Kanitani, Shiing-Shen Chern, A. P. Norden, G. Bol, S. P. Finikov and G. F. Laptev. Even the basic...
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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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Richard Doll won the other for his contribution to cancer epidemiology. Shiing-Shen Chern was awarded the inaugural Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for...
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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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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 p k (...
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