Mathematician:Shiing-Shen Chern

Mathematician
Chinese-American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology.

Nationality
Chinese

History

 * Born: 28 October 1911 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, Xinhai China
 * Died: 3 December 2004 Tianjin, China

Theorems and Definitions

 * Chern Class


 * Chern-Lashof Theory (with )
 * Chern-Simons Theory (with )
 * Chern-Simons Form (with )
 * Chern-Weil Theory (with )
 * Chern-Weil Homomorphism (with )


 * Chern's Conjecture
 * Chern's Conjecture (Differential Geometry)
 * Chern-Bott Formula (with )
 * Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem (with and )

Publications

 * 1951: Topics in Differential Geometry
 * 1953: Differential Manifolds
 * 1956: Complex Manifolds
 * 1968: Minimal Submanifolds in a Riemannian Manifold
 * 1979: Complex manifolds Without Potential Theory

Also known as

 * Chinese:  陳省身
 * Pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn

Chern is his family name.