陈省身英文简介
(转自The Mathematics Genealogy Project)
Shiing-shen Chern
Born: 26 Oct
Died: 3 Dec
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Shiing-shen
Chern, whose name can also be written as Chen Xingshen,
studied at
He received a
scholarship in 1934 to study in the
At this stage
Chern was forced to choose between two attractive options, namely to stay in
... from
evidence and the phenomena which arise from special cases rather than from a
general and abstract viewpoint.
In 1937 Chern
left
At the end of
World War II, Chern returned to
From 1949 Chern
worked in the
He was awarded
the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the Wolf Prize in 1983/84. In 1985 he
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the following year
he was made an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society.
His area of
research was differential geometry where he studied the (now named) Chern
characteristic classes in fibre spaces. These are important not only in
mathematics but also in mathematical physics. He worked on characteristic
classes during his 1943-45 visit to
His work is
summed up in [17]
as follows:-
When Chern was
working on differential geometry in the 1940s, this
area of mathematics was at a low point. Global differential geometry was only
beginning, even Morse
theory was understood and used by a very small number of people. Today,
differential geometry is a major subject in mathematics and a large share of
the credit for this transformation goes to Professor Chern.
In
Hail to Chern!
Mathematics Greatest!
He made Gauss-Bonnet
a household word,
Intrinsic proofs he found,
Throughout the World his truths abound,
Chern classes he gave us,
and Secondary Invariants,
Fibre Bundles and Sheaves,
Distributions and Foliated Leaves!
All Hail All Hail to CHERN.
Article
by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
List of References (17
books/articles)
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