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Professor Shiing-Shen Chern

Professor Shiing Shen Chern, one of the greatest mathematicians and geometers of twentieth century, recently passed away. He was born in 1911, and died on December 7, 2004. As a mathematician, he specialized in differential and integral geometry and topology.

Since I am working on my finals, I am not able to write an introductory biographic piece of him right now. Here's an excellent link to a biography of his written by the staff of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, one of the three mathematical institutes Professor Chern helped founded (the other two being the Institute of Mathematics at Academia Sinica and the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin, China)

http://www.msri.org/chern_04.pdf

posted by James Chang @ 10:56 PM